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Limited chloroplast gene transfer via recombination overcomes plastomegenome incompatibility between Nicotiana tabacum and Solanum tuberosum

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Green cybrids with a new nucleus-chloroplast combination cannot be selected after protoplast fusion in the intersubfamilial Nicotiana-Solanum combination. As an approach to overcome the supposed plastomegenome incompatibility, a partial plastome transfer by genetic recombination has been considered. After fusions of protoplasts of a light-sensitive Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) plastome mutant and lethally irradiated protoplasts of wild-type Solanum tuberosum (potato), a single green colony was recovered among 2.5×104 colonies. The regenerated plants had tobacco-like (although abnormal) morphology, but were normally green, and sensitive to tentoxin, demonstrating chloroplast markers of the potato parent. Restriction enzyme analysis of the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) revealed recombinant, nonparental patterns. A comparison with physical maps of the parental cpDNA demonstrated the presence of a considerable part of the potato plastome flanked by tobacco-specific regions. This “potacco” plastome proved to be stable in backcross and backfusion experiments, and normally functional in the presence solely of N. tabacum nucleus.

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Thanh, N.D., Medgyesy, P. Limited chloroplast gene transfer via recombination overcomes plastomegenome incompatibility between Nicotiana tabacum and Solanum tuberosum . Plant Mol Biol 12, 87–93 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00017450

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