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Prefertilization barriers to interspecific hybridization involving Gossypium hirsutum and four diploid wild species
Authors:S Ganesh Ram    S Hari Ramakrishnan    V Thiruvengadam  and J R Kannan Bapu
Institution:Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India,
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Abstract:Interspecific hybridization among species of cotton has lead to improvement in productivity, earliness, fibre quality and resistance to pests and diseases. However, wide crosses is often limited by the operation of either pre‐ or/and post‐fertilization barriers. An investigation on pollen tube behaviour of four wild species in the pistils of Gossypium hirsutum was taken up. Pollen germination was normal in crosses involving Gossypium triphyllum and Gossypium armourianum and markedly inhibited in the crosses involving Gossypium davidsonii and Gossypium thurberi. Pollen tubes reached the pistils and fertilization was accomplished within 8 h after pollination (HAP) in control cross. Even though delay in pollen tube was a common phenomenon in all the four crosses successful fertilization was observed in crosses involving G. triphyllum and G. armourianum, as they reached the ovary at 24 HAP. In crosses with G. davidsonii and G. thurberi, pollen tubes failed to reach the ovary even at 24 HAP indicating the presence of strong stylar and ovarian incompatibility. Measures to overcome such barriers to interspecific hybridization in the incompatible crosses are discussed.
Keywords:Gossypium species  interspecific hybridization  pollen germination  pollen tube growth  fluorescent microscopy
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