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Gossypium herbaceum , a cultivated diploid cotton species (2n = 2x = 26, A 1 A 1 ), has favorable traits such as excellent drought tolerance and resistance to sucking insects and leaf curl virus.  G .  australe , a wild diploid cotton species (2n = 2x = 26, G 2 G 2 ), possesses numerous economically valuable characteristics such as delayed pigment gland morphogenesis (which is conducive to the production of seeds with very low levels of gossypol as a potential food source for humans and animals) and resistance to insects, wilt diseases and abiotic stress. Creating synthetic allotetraploid cotton from these two species would lay the foundation for simultaneously transferring favorable genes into cultivated tetraploid cotton. Here, we crossed  G .  herbaceum  (as the maternal parent) with  G .  australe  to produce an F 1  interspecific hybrid and doubled its chromosome complement with colchicine, successfully generating a synthetic tetraploid. The obtained tetraploid was confirmed by morphology, cytology and molecular markers and then self-pollinated. The S 1  seedlings derived from this tetraploid gradually became flavescent after emergence of the fifth true leaf, but they were rescued by grafting and produced S 2  seeds. The rescued S 1  plants were partially fertile due to the existence of univalents at Metaphase I of meiosis, leading to the formation of unbalanced, nonviable gametes lacking complete sets of chromosomes. The S 2  plants grew well and no flavescence was observed, implying that interspecific incompatibility, to some extent, had been alleviated in the S 2  generation. The synthetic allotetraploid will be quite useful for polyploidy evolutionary studies and as a bridge for transferring favorable genes from these two diploid species into Upland cotton through hybridization.

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A New Synthetic Allotetraploid (A1A1G2G2) between Gossypium herbaceum and G. australe: Bridging for Simultaneously Transferring Favorable Genes from These Two Diploid Species into Upland Cotton