Syncytes in meiosis of polyploid sorghum

Merwine, N.C. and Bennett, H.W. (1966) Syncytes in meiosis of polyploid sorghum. Crop Science, 6 (2). pp. 155-157.

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Abstract

Syncytes occurred in a triploid and tetraploid progeny of an interspecific hybrid between Sorghum bicolor and S. halepense. That they originated by the fusion of two or more microsporocytes as a result of environmental conditions of high temperature and moisture stress is suggested. Meiosis was relatively regular in material collected from the same plants during favorable growing conditions. Coalescence of pollen mother-cells varied from complete fusion into one polyploid cell to merely peripheral connection. Although meiosis was very irregular in these fusion bodies, sufficiently regular and functional fusion bodies, sufficiently regular and functional polyploid polyploid spores could be formed which may subsequently give rise to a polyploid series within a species.

Item Type:	Article
Author Affiliation:	Professor of Crop Management, Mississippi Agr. Sta., and Research Agronomist, Crops Research Division, ARS, USDA, State College, Miss.
Subjects:	Crop Improvement Crop Improvement > Plant Breeding
Divisions:	Sorghum
Depositing User:	Sandhya Gir
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2010 03:24
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2010 03:24
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci1966.0011183X0006...
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/337

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