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Cytogenetics of Crotalaria V. Supernumerary nucleoli in C. agatiflora (Leguminosae)

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Of 35 species of Crotalaria (Leguminosae) studied, all but one had usually one nucleolus in the premetaphase I cells. In C. agatiflora 300 PMCs from four out of five plants were investigated and the percentage cells with more than one nucleolus was determined as well as the nature of nucleolar attachment to bivalents and the range and the sizes of various nucleoli present in the cell. The ‘aberrant’ cells ranged from 42 to 50%. The nucleoli (1–6) were usually attached to different bivalents. Where one nucleolus was present in the cell, it was always attached to an X-shaped bivalent, formed of a pair of nucleolar chromosomes. In the aberrant cells one nucleolus usually was attached to such a bivalent. The presence of accessory nucleoli has been attributed to hybridity as a result of large-scale intercrossing among five subspecies and consequent dispersal of intermediates in the adjoining areas where C. agatiflora grows wild (East Africa and Ethiopia). The change in the regulatory system of the cell caused by hybridity results in activation of latent nucleolar organizers, although their overall presence in the genome is not due to hybridity.

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Verma, R.C., Raina, S.N. Cytogenetics of Crotalaria V. Supernumerary nucleoli in C. agatiflora (Leguminosae). Genetica 56, 75–80 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126933

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