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Organization and rearrangements of microtubular cytoskeleton (MTs) during microsporogenesis are determined in ‘historical’ potato genotypes producing 2n pollen following different meiotic nuclear restitution mechanisms (‘parallel spindles’, ‘fused spindles’, ‘premature cytokinesis’). The scope of the investigation is to assess the abnormalities in MT cytoskeleton and their relationships to 2n pollen formation. The genotypes of Solanum used for MT immunofluorescence in this study are diploid interspecific hybrids (2n=2x=24) coming from Wisconsin (USA)and Wageningen (NL) Universities. Based on MT analysis, a reinterpretation of the restitution mechanisms following spindle abnormalities was performed in this study. The fusion of the nuclei at prophase II occurs through the perinuclear MTs in the genotype with ‘fused spindles’. In genotypes with misoriented spindles, the ‘non-spindle’ cytoskeletal arrays,occurring at telophase II, are clue in determining the meiotic products such as dyads and triads. A particular MT array could be crucially involved in meiotic nuclear restitutions both at telophase I and II: the interzonal MTs. It is discussed which is the relationship between this array and the spindle orientation at meta-anaphase II. It is hypothesized that the fusion of non-sister nuclei at each pole depends on the lack of secondary interzonal MTs and on the short distance between nuclei. In the genotype with premature cytokinesis, effectively, a premature phragmoplast occurs at the end of meiosis I. Furthermore, two genotypes are desynaptic with a high degree of male fertility restored by the nuclear restitutions. However, no clear relationship was found between univalents and restitution mechanisms.
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Conicella, C., Capo, A., Cammareri, M. et al. Elucidation of meiotic nuclear restitution mechanisms in potato through analysis of microtubular cytoskeleton. Euphytica 133, 107–115 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025636321757
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