Breeding barriers between Gossypium spp. and species of the Malvaceae family
Stella Kantartzi A C and D. G. Roupakias BA Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701 AR, USA.
B Laboratory of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece.
C Corresponding author. Email: skantart@uark.edu
Australian Journal of Botany 56(3) 241-245 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT07161
Submitted: 31 August 2007 Accepted: 22 November 2007 Published: 21 May 2008
Abstract
Cotton breeders have long recognised the importance of alien germplasm from the Malvaceae family, especially the cultivated species, as sources of genes for cotton improvement. An understanding of the biological nature of the incompatibility systems that prevent hybridisation and/or seed development is necessary for the successful hybridisation and introgression between cotton and cultivated Malvaceae species (Hibiscus cannabinus and Abelmoschus esculentus). The objectives of the present study were to determine the reasons for reproductive isolation between Malvaceae species. The current study utilised two alien Malvaceae species and established that pollen–pistil incompatibilities are the primary reasons that hybrids with Gossypium hirsutum are not obtained. The alien pollen tubes showed major inhibition of growth in cotton pistils and seldom grew beyond the stigma. Only pollen tubes of A. esculentus grew into the ovary of cotton.
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