Construction and Characterization of a cDNA Library from the Pulp of Cara Cara Navel Orange （Citrus sinensis Osbeck）

A cDNA library was constructed end characterized from the pulp of Cera Care navel orange （Citrus sinensis Osbeck） at different stages of ripening. Tittering results revealed that approximately 5.086×10^5 independent clones were included in this library. Electrophoresls gel results of 15 randomly selected clones revealed that the size of the insertion fragments ranged from 400 bp to 2 kb, with an average size of 900 bp. Sequencing results of 150 randomly picked clones showed that the recombination rate was 94%. During subsequent sequence analysis, 41 of 139 clones failed to be identified end the amino sequence of 71 clones shared less than 30% identity with related plants in GenBank. Of 27 clones whose amino sequences shared more than 60% identity with other related plants in GenBenk, 17 clones showed an 80% identity with the corresponding candidate genes of citrus. The clone recognized as the type Ⅲ metallothlonein-llke （MT） gene was observed to occur 13 tlmes, Indlcatlng that the protein may play an important role In frult development and rlpenlng.     

Optimization of Electrofusion Parameters and Interspecific Somatic Hybrid Regeneration in Citrus

This study was primarily attempted to optimize the electrofusion parameters using protoplasts isolated from cell suspension cultures of "Page" tangelo ( Citrus reticulata Blanco x C. paradisi Macf) and mesophyll protoplasts of rough lemon ( Citrus jambhiri Lush) as fusion partners. It was shown that the binuclear heterokaryons frequency reached 15% with the following parameters: alternate current (AC) 125 V/cm, AC time 60 s, direct current (DC) 1 250 V/cm, DC pulse width 50 μs, DC pulse interval O. 5 s, No. of DC pulse 3. Considering the fact that different types of protoplasts have different specific weights, higher frequency of the binuclear heterokaryons was obtained by controlling the centrifugation time after fusion. The fusion products regenerated into plantlets after 3 to 4 months of culture. Chromosome counting of the root tips and morphological observation of the regenerants verified that 78% were tetraploids and the rest were diploids with the leaf morphology of mesophyll parent. Peroxidase (POX) isozyme and RAPD analysis indicated that interspecific somatic hybrids were obtained and an autotetraploid plant of mesophyll parent type was also verified.     

Production and molecular characterization of diploid and tetraploid somatic cybrid plants between male sterile Satsuma mandarin and seedy sweet orange cultivars

Seedlessness, an important economic trait for fresh fruit, is among the prior goal for all citrus breeding programs. Symmetric somatic hybridization provides a new strategy for citrus seedless breeding by creating cybrids transferring mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) controlled cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) from the callus parent Satsuma mandarin (C. unshiu Marc.) to seedy cultivars. In this study, protoplast fusion was adopted to transfer CMS from C. unshiu Marc. cv. Guoqing No. 1 (G1) to three seedy sweet oranges (C. sinensis L. Osb.), i.e. ‘Early gold’, ‘Taoye’ and ‘Hongjiang’. Flow cytometry analysis showed that 12 of 13 regenerated plants from G1 + ‘Early gold’, 9 of 12 from G1 + ‘Taoye’ and both two plants from G1 + ‘Hongjiang’ were diploids, while the remaining regenerated plants were tetraploids. Molecular analysis using 23 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers previously proven to map to the citrus genome showed that the nuclear DNA from all recovered diploid and tetraploid plants derived from their corresponding leaf parent, while cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence analysis showed that the mtDNA of all regenerated plants derived from the callus parent, indicating that the regenerated 2X and 4X plants from all these three combinations are authentic cybrids. Furthermore, the Chloroplast SSR analysis revealed that somatic cybrid plants from the three combinations possessed either of their parental chloroplast type in most cases. These results demonstrated that mtDNA of G1 Satsuma mandarin was successfully introduced into the three seedy sweet orange cultivars for potential seedlessness via symmetric fusion.     

黄肉桃种质资源的RAPD分析

利用RAPD技术,采用从200个十碱基随机物筛选的22个随机引物对37个黄肉桃品种的基因组DNA进行扩增,通过扩增的180个位点的谱带的聚类,分析供试黄肉桃的系统发育,运用特殊谱带,建立了黄肉桃的分子检索表,并提出了重点保存的黄肉桃种质。