Chloroplast dna and co2 compensation point of somatic hybrid plants between Brassica oleracea and Moricandia arvensis

Kinya Toriyama, Toshiya Yanagino, Khorshid Razmjoo, Ryuichi Ishii, Kokichi Hinata

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Abstract

The CO2 compensation point and its relation to the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) type were investigated on the somatic hybrids between Brassica oleracea, a C3 plant and Moricandia arvensis, a C3-C4 intermediate plant. The fragment patterns of cpDNA digested with restriction endonuclease (Xhol) showed that the somatic hybrid plants had the cpDNA of either B. oleracea or M. arvensis. Out of 11 plants investigated, 5 plants had the cpDNA of B. oleracea, while 6 had that of M. arvensis. However, both types of the hybrids showed as high a CO2 compensation point as B. oleracea irrespective of their cpDNA. In this respect, the C3-C4 intermediate character of M. arvensis was not expressed in the hybrids.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)543-547
Number of pages5
JournalGenes and Genetic Systems
Volume63
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1988

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