Abstract
Fluorescence in situ hybridization allows for the mapping of various sequence types in the genomes and is thus widely used in structural, functional, and evolutionary studies. One particular type of in situ hybridization that specifically allows to map whole parental genomes in diploid and polyploid hybrids is genomic in situ hybridization (GISH). The efficiency of GISH, i.e., the specificity of hybridization of genomic DNA probes to the parental subgenomes in hybrids depends, among others, on the age of the polyploids and the similarity of the parental genomes, specifically their repetitive DNA fractions. Typically, high levels of overall repeat similarity between the parental genomes result in lower efficiency of GISH. Here, we present the formamide-free GISH (ff-GISH) protocol that can be applied to diploid and polyploid hybrids of both monocots and dicots. ff-GISH allows higher efficiency of the labeling of the putative parental genomes compared to the standard GISH protocol and allows discrimination of parental chromosome sets that share up to 80–90% repeat similarity. This modified method is nontoxic, is simple, and lends itself to modifications. It can also be used for standard FISH and mapping of individual sequence types in chromosomes/genomes.
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This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (projects P21440, P25131, and I2119 to H.W.-S.).
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Weiss-Schneeweiss, H., Jang, TS. (2023). Formamide-Free Genomic In Situ Hybridization (ff-GISH). In: Heitkam, T., Garcia, S. (eds) Plant Cytogenetics and Cytogenomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2672. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3226-0_16
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