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Mesophyll protoplasts of the kanamycin-resistant nightshade, Atropa belladonna, were fused with mesophyll protoplasts of the phosphinothricin resistant-tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum. A total of 447 colonies resistant to both inhibitors was selected. Most of them regenerated shoots with morphology similar to one of the earlier obtained and described symmetric somatic hybrids Nicotiana + Atropa. However, three colonies (0.2%) regenerated vigorously growing tobacco-like shoots; they readily rooted, and after transfer to soil, developed into normal, fertile plants. Unlike their tobacco parental line, BarD, the obtained plants are resistant to kanamycin [they root normally in the presence of kanamycin (200 mg/1)] and possess activity of neomycin phosphotransferase (NPT II) with the same electrophoretic mobility as the one of the nightshade line. According to Southern blot hybridization analysis carried out with the use of radioactively labeled cloned fragments of the Citrus lemon ribosomal DNA repeat, as well as with Nicotiana plumbaginifolia genus-specific, interspersed repeat Inp, the kanamycin-resistant plants under investigation have only species-specific hybridizing bands from tobacco. Cytological analysis of the chromosome sets shows that plants of all three lines possess 48 large chromosomes similar to Nicotiana tabacum ones (2n = 48), and one small extra chromosome (chromosome fragment) similar to Atropa belladonna ones (2n = 72). Available data allow the conclusion that highly asymmetric, normal fertile somatic hybrids with a whole diploid Nicotiana tabacum genome and only part (not more than 2.8%) of an Atropa belladonna genome have been obtained without any pretreatment of a donor genome, although both these species are somatically congruent.
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Babiychuk, E., Kushnir, S. & Gleba, Y.Y. Spontaneous extensive chromosome elimination in somatic hybrids between somatically congruent species Nicotiana tabacum L. and Atropa belladonna L.. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 84, 87–91 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00223985
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