Claim · model-written summary
Hexaploid tobacco produced less pollen than tetraploid tobacco.
- Taxon
- tobaccos
Nicotiana tabacume0 - Material
- hexaploide0
- Outcome
- amount of pollene0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Comparator
- tetraploid tobaccose0
Not reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“?ower buds and anthers of hexaploid tobaccos were bigger than those of tetraploid tobaccos, with less amount of pollen”
Title
The development of hexaploid tobacco by hybridization of heteroploid tobaccos
Wei Yexi Zhongguo yancao xuebao 2013
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Crossing Yunyan87 octoploids with L-8 tetraploids produced hexaploid tobacco plants.
- Observation Hexaploid tobacco had bigger flower buds and anthers than tetraploid tobacco.
- Observation In vitro hexaploid pollen germination was 9.78%, significantly below tetraploid pollen germination.
- Observation Very little hexaploid pollen germinated on Yunyan87 stigma.
- Observation Using hexaploid tobacco as male parent produced no fruit.
- Observation Using hexaploid tobacco as maternal parent produced some mature seeds.
- Observation Seed germination from hexaploid maternal crosses was 21.2%.
- Observation The authors interpreted hexaploid tobacco as male sterile.
- Recommendation The authors proposed using hexaploid tobacco as a female parent in breeding and genetic studies.