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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-29
pubmed:abstractText
Cytological examination of nodules from diploid, tetraploid, and octoploid alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants revealed that the proportion of nodule cells infected by rhizobia was not significantly affected by nuclear ploidy of the host plant. Flow cytometry was used to determine the influence of host plant nuclear ploidy on the nuclear ploidy of infected cells. In nodules from diploid plants, most of the nuclei were tetraploid, whereas in nodules from tetraploid plants, about half of the nodule nuclei were tetraploid and half were octoploid; in octoploid plants, most of the nodule nuclei were octoploid. The occurrence of disomatic nuclei was independent of infection of nodule cells by rhizobia, because diploid plants had mostly disomatic nodule nuclei, and octoploid plants had mostly monosomatic nodule nuclei, whereas all nodules maintained a constant proportion of infected to uninfected cells. These results do not support the earlier hypothesis that infected nodule cells contain disomatic nuclei.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0032-0889
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
280-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-14
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Is There a Relationship between Infection by Rhizobia and Occurrence of Disomatic Nuclei in Nodules of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)?
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article