Abnormal cytokinesis in microsporogenesis of Brachiaria humidicola (Poaceae: Paniceae).

• Autor(a) principal: ADAMOWSKI, E. V.
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: BOLDRINI, K. R., PAGLIARINI, M. S., VALLE, C. B. do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/326647
• topic: Braquiária; Citocinese; Campo Grande; Mato Grosso do Sul; Brasil; Feed crops; Feed grasses; Citokinesis; Melhoramento genético vegetal; Citogenética vegetal; Planta Forrageira; Meiose; Brachiaria Humidicola; Plant breeding; Cytogenetics; Brazil

Microsporogenesis was evaluated in the Brachiaria humidicola collection of the Embrapa Beef Cattle Center, represented by 60 acessions. One acession (H121) presented an abnormal pattern of cytokinesis that had never been reported in this genus. Among 900 meiocytes analyzed in the first division, 10.7% underwent precocious and multiple cytokinesis in metaphase I, fractionating the genome and the cytoplasm into two or more parts. The expected cytokinesis after telophase I did not occur. The abnormal meiocytes from the first division entered the second division but the second cytokinesis after telophase II was also abnormal. Among the 857 meiocytes analyzed in the second division, 10.9% presented abnormal, incomplete or total absence of cytokinesis. Dyads and binucleated microspores were recorded among the meiotic products. The use of this accession in the Embrapa breeding program is compromised.