Phosphinothricin-resistant Brassica napus + Orychophragmus violaceus somatic hybrids

Hybrid plants resistant to phosphinothricin (PPT) are obtained as a result of experiments with somatic hybridization between Brassica napus L. cv. Kalinins’kyy and Orychophragmus violaceus L. O.E. Shulz. The hybrids inherited PPT resistance from O. violaceus plants that had been previously transformed by a vector containing the maize transposon system Spm/dSPm with bar gene located within the nonautonomous transposon. The morphologically obtained plants occupy an intermediate position between the initial forms, which is in agreement with the results of isoenzyme analyses (analysis of multiple forms of amylase and esterase) and PCR analysis (presence of the genes bar, gus, and SpmTPase). Inheritance of the plastome occurs from oilseed rape, while that of the mitochondrion, from O. violaceus, which is proved by means of PCR-RFLP analysis. The plant hybrids may be utilized for further selection research with oilseed rape following determination of the edible quality of its oil as well as in experiments with chloroplast transformation, a topic which is of critical importance for oilseed rape.