Facilitation of Wide-Crossing Through Embryo Rescue and Pollen Storage in Interspecific Hybridization of Cultivated Allium species |
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| Authors: | L. G. Gonzalez B. V. Ford-Lloyd |
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| Affiliation: | L. G. Gonzalez;, B. V. Lluyd, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Birmingham. P.O. Box 363, Birmingham Bl5 2TT (U.K.) |
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| Abstract: | Up to 70% success has been achieved using a simple technique of in ovulo embryo rescue for generating progeny From crosses between Allium cepa and A. fistulosum and other wild species of Allium. Pollen storage in liquid nitrogen has overcome problems associated with lack of synchrony of flowering between Allium species. The use of pollen tube growth for predicting crossability is brought into question. |
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| Keywords: | Allium spec. embryo rescue pollen storage pollen tube growth interspecific hybridization |
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