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Backcross progenies, BC1 and BC2, derived from crossing a hexaploid potato (+) tomato fusion hybrid to tetraploid potato, were monitored for the presence of alien tomato chromosomes. For discriminating the tomato chromosomes from those of potato, both mitotic and meiotic chromosome preparations were labelled differentially through total genomic DNA in situ hybridization (GISH). The presence or absence of individual tomato chromosomes in the BC progeny was identified through RFLP analyses using chromosome-specific DNA probes. The results indicated that the BC1 plant possessed only nine chromosomes of tomato instead of the expected haploid set of 12. Of the nine persistent tomato chromosomes, there were three pairs that formed bivalents and three singles that formed univalents at meiosis. One of the single chromosomes was strikingly longer as a result of some structural mutation and could easily be identified in the hexaploid parent, the BC1 and in some of the BC2 plants. From the analyses of BC2 progeny there were indications of the presence in the BC1 of tomato chromosomes 1, 3 and 6 in duplicate, and chromosomes 8, 9 and 10 in the haploid condition. The number of tomato chromosomes transmitted to BC2 plants varied from one to six. The results of GISH revealed that a few BC2 plants possessed more tomato chromosomes than those deduced from RFLP analysis. This indicated the presence of some tomato chromosomes in duplicate and others in the haploid condition. The potential value of these genotypes for establishing potato lines with additions and substitutions of tomato chromosomes is discussed.
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Jacobsen, E., de Jong, J., Kamstra, S. et al. Genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) and RFLP analysis for the identification of alien chromosomes in the backcross progeny of potato (+) tomato fusion hybrids. Heredity 74, 250–257 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1995.38
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