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Crossability within Ipomoea section Batatas is complex because of genetic, cytogenetic and physiological interactions. This complexity is responsible for the fact that knowledge about phylogenetic relationships within this section remains preliminary. Between 1988 and 1991, studies of planting, pollination and evaluation of progenies were carried out at the facilities of CIP in La Molina and San Ramon, Peru. Self-compatibility was found in nine diploid species. Self-incompatibility was found in diploid I. trifida, tetraploid I. tiliacea and both tetraploid and hexaploid I. batatas. Sexual compatibility is though to be related to a multiallelic sporophytic incompatibility system which is expressed in the stigmatic papillae. Altogether, 4,162 cross pollinations were made between 11 species and 76 interspecific combinations of 110 possible combinations in a diallel 11×11 design. From these 76 interspecific combinations only 38 survived, and in these crossability (= proportion between number of fruits harvested/pollinations made) ranged from 0.01 to 1.00 at La Molina. At San Ramon, 11 out of 17 cross combinations were successful, and in these crossability ranged from 0.01 to 0.71. Crossability appeared to be influenced by latitude which is related to flowering synchrony. The early death of seedlings is hypothesized to be related to a genomic imbalance between embryo and endosperm. Maternal effects were found in crosses between diploids and tetraploids which produced triploid and diploid offspring, and in crosses between hexaploids and diploids which gave rise to hexaploid offspring. This study shows that I. trifida and I. x leucantha may act as “bridge species” for gene flow from wild Ipomoea species to the genepool of the sweetpotato.
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Diaz, J., Schmiediche, P. & Austin, D.F. Polygon of crossability between eleven species of Ipomoea: section Batatas (Convolvulaceae). Euphytica 88, 189–200 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023890
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