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A long-term suspension culture ofBrachycome dichromosomatica (2n = 4) was induced from a cotyledon-derived callus. Subcultures were obtained every week up to three years. The bulk of the cultures displayed a stable diploid karyotype, while one cell line evolved with 2n = 5 chromosomes in the 86th reinoculation. No further chromosomal change occurred also in that cell line. It is assumed that the fifth chromosome is the expression of a trisomy 2.
The chromatin ultrastructure was of the species-specific chromomeric type in the wild-type line, while the trisomic line displayed more condensed chromatin, what probably indicates a rather inactive state of the extra-chromosome.Brachycome dichromosomatica is suggested to represent an ideal species to follow-up karyotype stability and/or variation in cell culture.
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As a former student W. N. dedicates this paper in gratitude and admiration to Prof. DrElisabeth Tschermak-Woess on the occasion of her 70th birthday. Prof.Woess with her scientific work has stimulated in an unique manner the study of nuclear structures in plants, of endopolyploidy and polytene chromosomes, and has thus established the basis for the rapidly increasing research in these fields.
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Nagl, W., Pfeifer, M. Karyological stability and microevolution of a cell suspension culture ofBrachycome dichromosomatica (Asteraceae). Pl Syst Evol 158, 133–139 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00936339
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