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- Title
Selection for growth-rate during asexual and sexual propagation in Phytophthora cactorum.
- Authors
MacIntyre, Donald; Elliott, Charles G.
- Abstract
Selection for high and low growth-rate was carried out during eight generations of asexual propagation by zoospores and seven generations of sexual reproduction by oospores. The fungus has previously been shown to be diploid during its vegetative phase. In the zoospore lines there was no significant variation and no response to selection, except for the occasional appearance of fast-growing sectors. A high line was established from such a sector; in its sexual progeny the inheritance of growth-rate was non-Mendelian. Propagation through self-fertilized oospores released very considerable genetic variation, and both high and low lines responded to selection. At first the variation within families, and the response to selection, increased with succeeding generations, despite the intense inbreeding. In later generations the high line became less variable, and the progeny oospore cultures resembled the fast-growing sectors. It is concluded that growth-rate is controlled by a polygenic system and by cytoplasmic determinants, a mutant form of which is responsible for the fast-sectoring phenotype.
- Publication
Genetics Research, 1974, Vol 24, Issue 3, p295
- ISSN
0016-6723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0016672300015299