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(American Journal of Botany. 2002;89:777-782.)
© 2002 Botanical Society of America, Inc.

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Chromosome-specific desynapsis in the n = 2 race of Haplopappus gracilis (Compositae)1

R. C. Jackson2, Ngan Ngo and Hao Ngo

Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-3131 USA

During cytological screening for pollen sterility in a wild population of Haplopappus gracilis (n = 2), several partially sterile plants were found that had good pachytene pairing but varying numbers of univalents. Some plants had chromosome A bivalents or A univalents, while in the same cells chromosome B had only bivalents. In other plants the reverse condition occurred; the B chromosome had B bivalents or B univalents and only A bivalents. This demonstrates a chromosome-specific effect for the desynapsis genes. Hybridization between the two homozygous mutant genotypes produced only normal bivalents; this indicates the two mutants are not alleles and each is recessive. An F2 generation showed independent assortment of the desynaptic mutations. The chromosome A bivalent is the larger of the two and normally has one or two chiasmata; the B bivalent normally has a single chiasma. Chiasmata distribution was tested in the desynaptic mutant A bivalents and showed an acceptable fit to a binomial distribution. This occurs also in heterozygous, asynaptic pairing control gene mutations. Analysis of the NOR bivalent in two hologenomic desynaptic mutations in tomato also showed a good fit to a binomial distribution of chiasmata. This indicates the same methods are applicable to diverse species.

Key Words: bivalents • chromosome-specific • Compositae • desynapsis • genetics • Haplopappus • random chiasmata






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