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CROP BREEDING, GENETICS & CYTOLOGY

A Study of Cytology, Isozyme, and Interspecific Hybridization on the Big-Achene Group of Buckwheat Species (Fagopyrum, Polygonaceae)

^a Institute of Plant Genetics and Breeding, School of Biological Technology and Engineering, Guizhou Normal University, Baoshan Beilu 116, Guiyang 550001, P.R. China
^b Technical Univ. of Munich, Lehrstuhl fuer Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzuechtung, Lange Point 51, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

^* Corresponding author (cqf1966{at}163.com, chenqf1228013{at}hotmail.com).

Eleven accessions of eight species belonging to the big-achene group of genus Fagopyrum Moench were studied on the basis of interspecific hybridization, GOT (i.e., glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase) isozyme band characteristics, and cytology. Following normal pollination, there were high crossabilities (8–37%) among these different species, but all hybrid seeds were empty except the crosses among F. esculentum Moench, F. esculentum var. homotropicum (Ohnishi) Q-F. Chen (= F. homotropicum Ohnishi), and F. esculentum subsp. ancestrale Ohnishi, indicating that there are no reproductional isolations among F. esculentum, F. esculentum var. homotropicum, and F. esculentum subsp. ancestrale. The cytological observation showed that the hybrid F. esculentum x F. esculentum var. homotropicum shows eight normal bivalents in meiosis of pollen mother cells. In addition, the results of GOT isozyme showed that F. esculentum, F. esculentum var. homotropicum, and F. zuogongense possess common GOT isoenzyme bands. Fagopyrum megaspartanium and F. pilus show unique GOT bands as well as karyotypes supporting the classification of individual species. The cytological analyses showed that tetraploid F. cymosum and F. giganteum are allotetraploids with two different size genomes. The identities of the different genomes in the big-achene group of genus Fagopyrum and the putative progenitors of common buckwheat are discussed.

Abbreviations: GOT, glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (EC 2.6.1.1) • m, median chromosome • MI, the first metaphase of meiosis • RAPD, random amplified polymorphic DNA • SAT, satellite chromosome • sm, submedian chromosome

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