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A phenomenon, loss of heterozygosity (LOH), was discovered in hybrid plants involving a selected plant (named AMR) of the Chinese rice cultivar ‘ZhongxinNo. 1’ as one parent. In these hybrids and some of their progenies, somatic variations were manifested by molecular genotypes and/or morphological phenotypes in vegetative parts of the same plant. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers for the parents have been followed through the F3 generation. RAPD markers were uniformly present or absent in all plants within some or all F2 panicle rows derived from F1 hybrids involving AMR. In contrast, RAPD markers segregated in the Mendelian manner for dominant markers in panicle rows derived from control hybrids. Certain F2 panicle rows from F1hybrids involving the special rice became fixed for all assayed RAPD markers. Genotype fixation was confirmed by molecular assays and field observations of the F3 progenies. We propose a new biological mechanism, called ‘assortment mitosis,’ as being responsible for the observed phenomenon. The use of this mechanism in plant hybrids allows the development of uniform progenies as early as the F2 generation. Therefore, the time required to obtain fixed non-parental type progenies for subsequent performance trials can be drastically shortened. Utilizing this mechanism in plant breeding represents a new approach and requires the modification of conventional plant breeding procedures.
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Wang, R.RC., Li, X. & Chatterton, N.J. A proposed mechanism for loss of heterozygosity in rice hybrids. Euphytica 118, 119–126 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004010517197
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