title: Unusual inheritance of the mitochondrial genome organization in the progeny of reciprocal crosses between alloplasmic hexaploid wheat regenerants.
abstract: The transmission of a structurally-hypervariable fraction of the mitochondrial genome has been studied in 42 F1 progenies obtained from reciprocal crosses between self-pollinated alloplasmic wheat plants regenerated after long-term somatic embryogenesis. This fraction of the genome is maternally and stoichiometrically inherited. In contrast, some additional restriction fragments specific to regenerated plants display a more complex mode of sexual transmission: one of the additional fragments was stoichiometrically and systematically inherited whereas two others were detected only in certain F1 hybrids. Assuming that the detection, by Southern analysis, of such a fragment in regenerated plants is due to the amplification of a pre-existing substoichiometric molecule generated by the activation of a rare recombination event, our results suggest that the probability of detecting a novel fragment in the F1 hybrids could be determined by the length of the repeated sequence at which recombination occurs.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, URA CNRS D-1128, Bât. 630, Université Paris XI, 91405, Orsay, France.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Morère-Le Paven
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: De Buyser
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hartmann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rode