title: Transfer of salt tolerance from Aeleuropus littorulis sinensis to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) via asymmetric somatic hybridization.
abstract: Protoplasts of wheat c.v. Jinan 177 were fused by PEG method with the UV irradiated protoplasts of A. littoralis - a salt tolerant plant intertribal to wheat. The early-formed regenerated clones were identified as hybrids by chromosome, isozyme and RAPD analysis. Their salt-tolerant ability was compared with both parents in relative growth, proline accumulation and Na(+)/K(+) ratio under salt stress, and was proved higher than wheat, indicating some corresponding genes coding salt-tolerance had been transferred into the hybrids. However, the hybrid clones could only differentiated to albino plants. Further investigations are now being conducted to solve this problem.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, People's Republic of China
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guangmin
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Daying
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huimin