Summary
Streptomycin resistance was transferred by “donor-recipient” protoplast fusion from Nicotiana tabacum (SR-1) protoplasts into Nicotiana tabacum (cytoplasmic male sterile — Line 92) protoplasts in one case and into Nicotiana sylvestris protoplasts in another. It is demonstrated that streptomycin resistance (SR-1) is a chloroplast marker which segregates independently from a mitochondrial marker.
In the fusion experiment where Nicotiana tabacum (Line 92) was the recipient, microcalli were plated in the presence of streptomycin. In this case, chloroplast sorting out occurred at a stage preceeding plant regeneration, producing stable streptomycin resistant cybrids. In the fusion whre Nicotiana sylvestris was the recipient, no direct selection for streptomycin resistance was performed. In this case chloroplast sorting out was incomplete, thus producing cybrid plants with a mixed chloroplast population. In some plants, sorting out of streptomycin resistant and sensitive chloroplasts was still apparent in the second generation progeny.
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Fluhr, R., Aviv, D., Edelman, M. et al. Cybrids containing mixed and sorted-out chloroplasts following interspecific somatic fusions in Nicotiana . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 65, 289–294 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276566
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