PMID- 31734861 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200608 LR - 20231113 IS - 2190-3883 (Electronic) IS - 1234-1983 (Print) IS - 1234-1983 (Linking) VI - 61 IP - 1 DP - 2020 Feb TI - Molecular and cytogenetic description of somatic hybrids between Gentiana cruciata L. and G. tibetica King. PG - 13-24 LID - 10.1007/s13353-019-00530-x [doi] AB - Somatic hybridization provides an opportunity to create cells with new genetic constitution. Here, the interspecific somatic hybrid plants regenerated in vitro following fusion of cell suspension-derived protoplasts of tetraploid Cross Gentian (Gentiana cruciata L., 2n = 52) with protoplasts released from mesophyll tissue of another tetraploid species, Tibetan Gentian (G. tibetica King, 2n = 52), were studied. According to the results of genome analyses with AFLP, ISSR, and CAPS markers, all somatic hybrids were genetically closer to "suspension" fusion partner G. cruciata than to "mesophyll" partner G. tibetica, but they got G. tibetica chloroplasts. Chromosome counting revealed little variation in the number of chromosomes in hybrid's cells (2n = 88 or 2n = 90), although all plants possessed similar nuclear DNA content which remained stable even after 2 years of in vitro culture. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) showed that hybrids possessed 4 to 7 chromosomes bearing 5S rDNA sites and 6 or 7 chromosomes with 35S rDNA sites. A part of FISH signals was smaller than those observed in the parental species, which could indicate the loss of rDNA sequences. Genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) showed the predominance of the number of G. cruciata chromosomes over chromosomes of G. tibetica. However, a significant level of cross-hybridization was observed for about one-third of hybrid chromosomes, indicating a high degree of homeology between the genomes of G. cruciata and G. tibetica. FAU - Tomiczak, Karolina AU - Tomiczak K AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4529-5581 AD - Department of Conservation Biology of Plants, Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden - Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin, Prawdziwka 2, 02-973, Warsaw, Poland. k.tomiczak@obpan.pl. LA - eng GR - Grant No. 3P04C 037 23/Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20191116 PL - England TA - J Appl Genet JT - Journal of applied genetics JID - 9514582 RN - 0 (DNA, Ribosomal) RN - 0 (Genetic Markers) SB - IM MH - Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis MH - *Chromosomes, Plant MH - *Cytogenetic Analysis MH - DNA, Ribosomal/genetics MH - Genetic Markers MH - *Genome, Plant MH - *Genomics/methods MH - Gentiana/classification/*genetics MH - *Hybridization, Genetic MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Karyotyping MH - Microsatellite Repeats PMC - PMC6968988 OTO - NOTNLM OT - AFLP OT - CAPS OT - Electrofusion OT - Gentian OT - ISSR OT - In situ hybridization COIS- The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2019/11/18 06:00 MHDA- 2020/06/09 06:00 PMCR- 2019/11/16 CRDT- 2019/11/18 06:00 PHST- 2019/05/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/10/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/09/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/11/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/06/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/11/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/11/16 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1007/s13353-019-00530-x [pii] AID - 530 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s13353-019-00530-x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Appl Genet. 2020 Feb;61(1):13-24. doi: 10.1007/s13353-019-00530-x. Epub 2019 Nov 16.