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A male-sterile mutation in soybean (Glycine max) affecting chromosome arrangement in metaphase plate and cytokinesis

NILTON CESAR PIRES BIONE¹, MARIA SUELY PAGLIARINI², LEONES ALVES DE ALMEIDA³

1 Department of Sciences, Unicentro, 84500-000, Irati PR Brazil.
2 Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, State University of Maringá, 87020-900 Maringá PR Brazil.
3 Embrapa-National Soybean Research Center (Embrapa Soybean), Londrina PR Brazil.
Address correspondence to: Dr. Maria Suely Pagliarini. State University of Maringá, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics. 87020 – 900 Maringá, Paraná, BRAZIL. E-mail: mspagliarini@uem.br

BIOCELL 2005, 29(2), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.32604/biocell.2005.29.177

Abstract

A spontaneous male-sterile, female-fertile mutation affecting bivalent arrangement at the metaphase plate and cytokinesis was detected in line BR98-197 of the soybean breeding program developed by Embrapa – National Soybean Research Centre. Untill diakinesis, meiosis was normal with chromosome pairing as bivalents. From this phase, in several meiocytes, bivalents were not able to organize a single metaphase plate and remained scattered in the cytoplasm in a few or several groups. In these meiocytes, chromosomes segregated in both divisions giving rise to several micronuclei. However, the main cause of male sterility was the absence of cytokinesis after telophase II. Instead of the typical tetrads of microspores, four nucleate coenocytic microspores were formed. In the mutant, pollen mitoses did not occur, and after engorgement by starch, pollen underwent a progressive process of degeneration.

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