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Seed from homozygous recessivems 1 genetic male-sterile soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) plants was studied for frequencies of polyembryonic seedlings and different levels of polyploidy among abnormal seedlings from six different source populations: Amesms 1 (Ams), North Carolinams 1 (NCms), Tonicams 1 (Tms), Urbanams 1 (Ums), and F4 generation seed obtained from crosses ofms 1 to two chromosome interchange lines (Ams x Clark T/T and Ums x KS-172-11-3). Frequencies of polyembryony observed in Tms, Ums, Ams, NCms, F4 seed from Ams x Clark T/T, and F4 seed from Ums x KS-172-11-3 were 3.6%, 2.4%, 3.1%, 2.5%, 2.2% and 0.1%, respectively. Frequencies of abnormal seedlings from these six sources varied from 1.7% (Ums X KS-172-11-3) to 16.8% (Ams X Clark T/T). Frequencies of polyploids among the abnormal seedlings ranged from 6.8% in Ums x Ks-172-11-3 to 66.7% in Tms. On average, the frequency of polyploid individuals from monoembryonic seedlings was 1.22%. Chromosome number of these seedlings varied from 20 to 200. Variation of the frequencies of polyembryonic seedlings and polyploid progeny among abnormal seedlings suggested that the mechanism(s) controlling the characters of polyembryony and formation of polyploids was associated with thems 1 gene and was affected by other gene(s) or environmental factors.
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Joint contribution: Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, and Journal Paper No. J-11255 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, IA 50011, USA. Project 2471
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Oliver Chen, LF., Heer, H.E. & Palmer, R.G. The frequency of polyembryonic seedlings and polyploids from ms1 soybean. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 69, 271–277 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00662441
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