Genetics of sex expression in Fragaria species
1991
Ahmadi, H. | Bringhurst, R.S.
Hermaphroditism is the normal mode of sex expression in diploid species of Fragaria (Rosaceae, 2n = 14, x = 7) with one known exception, gynodioecious F. vesca L. ssp. bracteata. The polyploid species of Fragaria are all trioecious. An extensive study involving appropriate hybridization, testcrossing, selfing, and backcrossing revealed that the repression of sporangia and the inhibition of sporogenesis are controlled by a single gene (or a gene complex) with at least three alleles in the sporophytes of trioecious species (2n = 56, x = 7). A male suppressor (allele F) reduces microsporangia and represses completely, but it allows normal development of the stigma, style, and ovary. A female suppressor (allele M), in the absence of modifier genes, inhibits and drastically reduces the number of carpels and size of receptacles. The allele H, conferring perfect flowers at an early stage of flower organogenesis, acts as an inducer of microsporogenesis in females, but leaves both micro-and megasporangial development intact. At the sex locus, the F allele (femaleness) is dominant to H and M and the H allele (hermaphroditism) is dominant to M (maleness). Females are exclusively heterogametic (F/H or F/M), hermaphrodites may be homo- or heterogametic (H/H or H/M), and males are homogametic (M/M). The sex gene is expressed precisely in the genetic background of X diploid hybrids of Fragaria and their derivatives and in crosses with closely related hermaphroditic diploid Pontentilla glandulosa L. Gene dosage phenomena are absent. First generation progeny of colchi-decaploids (F/F,-/-) are exclusively female, but all generations thereafter segregate in a normal diploidized manner (1:1). Application of phytohormones alters sex expression to a limited extent.
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