Isozyme and cytogenetic analyses were performed on selfed progenies of a synthetic amphidiploid between scarlet eggplant,
Solanum integrifolium (=
S. aethiopicum),and eggplant,
Solanum melongena `DMP', for estimating genetic uniformity. Isozymes in the 379 examined seedlings segregated into five genotypes (phenotypes)
each at the four loci examined,
Pgd-2 of phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.43),
Idh-2 of isocitrate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.41),
Pgm-2 of phosphoglucomutase (E.C.2.7.5.1)and
Skdh-1 of shikimate dehydrogenase (E.C.1.1.1.25), indicating that the selfed seedlings were not genetically uniform. Most of the
examined 15 selfed seedlings exhibited a somatic chromosome number of 48, that is the same number of the synthetic amphidiploid,
whereas isozyme genotypes among them were variable. It is suggested that the segregation of isozymes was not caused by variation
of chromosome number but by genetic segregation of isozyme genes. The genome of the synthetic amphidiploid was indicated to
be unstable.
amphidiploid - genome - isozymes -
Solanum integrifolium
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Solanum melongena
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.