Cytological analysis of tetraploid hybrids between sweet potato and diploid Ipomoea trifida (H. B. K.) Don. |
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| Authors: | M Z Oracion K Niwa I Shiotani |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, 514 Tsu, Japan;(2) Present address: Department of Plant Breeding and Agricultural Botany, Visayas State College of Agriculture, 6521-A Leyte, The Philippines;(3) Present address: Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, 606 Kyoto, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Summary Tetraploid F1 hybrids between Ipomoea batatas, sweet potato (2n = 6x = ca. 90), and diploid (2n = 2x = 30) I. trifida (H. B. K.) Don. showed various degrees of fertility reduction. The present study aimed to clarify its causes by cytological analysis of meiotic chromosome behavior in the diploid and sweet potato parents and their tetraploid hybrids. The diploid parents showed exclusively 15 bivalents, and the sweet potato parents exhibited almost perfect chromosome pairing along with predominant multivalent formation. Their hybrids (2n = 4x= 57–63) formed 2.6–5.0 quadrivalents per cell, supporting the autotetraploid nature. The meiotic aberratios of the hybrids were characterized by the formation of univalents, micronuclei, and abnormal sporads (monad, dyad, triad, and polyad). The causes underlying these aberrations were attributed in part to the multivalent formation, and in part to a disturbance in the spindle function. Three hybrids showing serious meiotic aberrations were very low in fertility. The utilization of the sweet potato-diploid I. trifida hybrids for sweet potato improvement is described and, further, the role of interploidy hybridization in the study of the sweet potato evolution is discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Sweet potato Ipomoea trifida Polyploidy Interspecific hybrids Unreduced gametes |
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