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- Title
Evidence of sexuality in induced tetraploids of Brachiaria brizantha (Poaceae).
- Authors
Araujo, Ana Claudia Guerra; Nóbrega, Janine Machado; Pozzobon, Marisa Toniolo; de Campos Cameiro, Vera Tavares
- Abstract
Difficulties in obtaining new breeding lines of Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb., an important forage grass in Brazil, are mostly related to differences in ploidy among the accessions, and to apomixis, an asexual mode of reproduction. Usually, sexual accessions are diploid while apomicts are polyploid. Induced tetraploids of Brachiaria brizantha (A. Rich.) Stapf have been successfully obtained and this paper presents the results of a study of their reproductive modes and fertility. Despite frequent meiotic aberrations during microspore development, the induced tetraploids produced viable pollen and produced progeny after controlled self-pollination. Similarly to the original diploid sexual progenitor, embryo sacs of the Polygonum type with confirmed meiotic origin were present in the induced tetraploids suggesting chromosome doubling did not alter the reproductive mode. The embryo sac of the Polygonum type was also observed in progenies obtained after self and open pollination. Nevertheless, embryo sacs of the Polygonum and the Panicum types within the same ovule were observed in some progenies obtained after open pollination, probably having resulted from hybridization with tetraploid, apomictic plants. Indeed, the compatibility of the progeny with tetraploid, apomictic B. brizantha was confirmed by the formation of mature caryopses after controlled pollination. Evidence is presented that the induced tetraploids and their progeny are sexual plants and that they are compatible with natural tetraploid B. brizantha. The induced tetraploids will be useful for analyses of apomictic inheritance as well as in the development of sexual tetraploid lines in Brachiaria breeding programs.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; GRASSES; FORAGE plants; RANGE plants; BRACHIARIA; PLANT genetics
- Publication
Euphytica, 2005, Vol 144, Issue 1/2, p39
- ISSN
0014-2336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10681-005-2842-2