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Brassica napus plants, artificially synthesized through somatic hybridization of B. oleracea and B. campestris protoplasts, were analyzed by oligonucleotide fingerprinting. While the fingerprint patterns of the different hybrid plants looked very much alike, they did not simply represent a combination of the parental patterns. Instead, the absence of parental bands as well as the presence of new bands suggest that elimination and/or rearrangements occurred during or after the fusion of the two genomes. The fingerprints of individual F1 progeny plants of selfed hybrids did not detect major changes. Thus, once formed, the artificially resynthesized amphidiploid B. napus genome appears to be stable. Taken together, our experiments demonstrate the usefulness of oligonucleotide fingerprinting for the characterization of artificial hybrids in the genus Brassica.
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Poulsen, G.B., Kahl, G. & Weising, K. Oligonucleotide fingerprinting of resynthesized Brassica napus . Euphytica 70, 53–59 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00029640
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