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Crytology and Morphology of a Tetraploid Sorghum Population Recovered from a Saccharum ✕ Sorghum Hybrid 1
Author(s) -
Gupta S. C.,
Harlam J. R.,
Wet J. M. J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1978.0011183x001800050052x
Subject(s) - sorghum , biology , hybrid , sweet sorghum , ploidy , saccharum , sorghum bicolor , population , agronomy , poaceae , botany , horticulture , genetics , gene , demography , sociology
Sugarcane ( Saccharum sp.) with 2n = ca. 112 chromosomes was crossed with diploid ( 2n = 20) sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench), and their hybrids were backcrossed twice with diploid and twice with tetraploid ( 2n = 40) sorghum. The BC 4 individuals, so obtained, were selfed twice to produce a recovered tetraploid sorghum population (BC 4 F 3 ). Fifty‐one BC 4 F 3 individuals, sugarcane and the sorghum parents, were studied cytologically and morphologically. Irregular cytological behavior of recovered sorghum plants, characterized by an increase in bivalent formation and decrease in tetravalent formation at diakinesis (in comparison to their tetraploid ‘Rio’ sorghum parent) indicated that the sorghum chromosomes may be contaminated with sugarcane genetic material. Morphological data were analyzed by cluster analysis, principal component analysis, univariate analysis of variance, F‐test, and t‐test to study the variability in the hybrid populations and to test the significance of morphological differences among groups. Modified recovered tetraploid sorghums had various combinations of Saccharum characteristics superimposed on a basic Sorghum morphology. Sixteen of 26 plant characters studied were influenced by sugarcane genetic material to varying degrees and frequencies. The presence of these sugarcane characters in recovered sorghums indicated intergenomic genetic exchange.