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Genetic manipulation and analysis of higher plant plasmagenes using somatic cell fusion
Author(s) -
Gleba Yuri Yu.,
Meshkiene Irute
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.950010504
Subject(s) - somatic cell , biology , somatic fusion , loss of heterozygosity , cell fusion , genetics , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , phenotype , gene , genetic analysis , evolutionary biology , cell , allele
The majority of higher plants (including almost all important crops) demonstrate strict uniparental maternal inheritance of plasmagenes in the process of conventional sexual crossing; it is therefore impossible to generate heterozygosity for these genes with standard crossing procedures. However, recent experiments have shown that hybrid plants can be produced by somatic cell fusion and that these contain the cytoplasmic genes of both parents. The phenotypic and genetic properties of these hybrid plants are described here.