Low-temperature-related growth and photosynthetic performance of alloplasmic tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) with chloroplasts from L. hirsutum Humb. & Bonpl. |
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Authors: | Oene Dolstra Jan Henk Venema Piet J Groot Philip R van Hasselt |
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Institution: | (1) Plant Research International, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands;(2) Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Department of Plant Biology, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 14, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Growth and photosynthetic performance were analyzed in alloplasmic tomato at a high- (25/17 °C; HTR) and low-temperature regime (12/6 °C; LTR) in order to establish the role of cytoplasmic variation on low-temperature tolerance of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). Four alloplasmic tomato lines, containing the nuclear genome of tomato and the plastome of L. hirsutum LA 1777 Humb. & Bonpl., an accession collected at high-altitude in Peru, were reciprocally crossed with 11 tomato entries
with a high inbreeding level and a wide genetic variation, resulting in a set of 44 reciprocal crosses. Irrespective of growth
temperature, alloplasmic families with alien chloroplasts of L. hirsutum (h) were on average characterized by a high shoot biomass, a large leaf area, and a low specific leaf area in comparison with
their euplasmic counterparts. These results do not directly point to an advantageous effect of h-chloroplasts on biomass accumulation at low temperature but rather towards a small general beneficial effect on growth and/or
distribution of assimilates. Significant chloroplast-related differences in photosynthetic performance, however, were not
detected at both temperature regimes, indicating that h-chloroplasts can properly function in a variable nuclear background of L. esculentum. It is concluded that chloroplast substitution is not an effective method for breeding tomato plants with improved low-temperature
tolerance.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | alien cytoplasmic variation chloroplasts low-temperature tolerance Lycopersicon esculentum L hirsutum tomato |
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