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Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica
On-line version ISSN 1851-2372
Abstract
KOVALSKY, Ivana Evelin; FERNANDEZ, Aveliano and SOLIS NEFFA, Viviana G. Mecanismos citológicos involucrados en la producción de gametos masculinos no reducidos en individuos diploides de Turnera sidoides subsp. carnea (Passifloraceae). Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. [online]. 2014, vol.49, n.2, pp.227-234. ISSN 1851-2372.
Turnera sidoides (x = 7) is an autopolyploid complex of outcrossing perennial herbs that includes five subspecies, with ploidy levels from diploid (2n = 2x = 14) to octoploid (2n = 8x = 56). Previous studies have revealed the production of unreduced male gametes (2n and 4n) in diploid populations of this complex, suggesting that sexual polyploidyzation would be the main mechanism involved in the origin of neopoliploids of T. sidoides. However, to date, there is a lack of data about the cytological mechanisms involved in the origin of such unreduced gametes. Thus, in this paper we analyze the meiotic behaviour and pollen viability of unreduced gametes producers from a diploid population of T. sidoides subsp. carnea. The results obtained showed that meiotic behavior was mostly regular; however some irregularities such as parallel spindles, fused spindles and nuclear restitution were also observed. Pollen viability varied from 44.75% to 95.82%. Overall, our results suggest that nuclear restitution at both the first and the second meiotic division would be the cytological mechanisms involved in the production of 2n male gametes. Such mechanisms would have important consequences in the establishments of neopolyploids in natural populations.
Keywords : Turnera sidoides; Poliploidy; Unreduced gametes; Meiosis; Pollen viability.