Journal
PLANT BREEDING
Volume 138, Issue 3, Pages 266-276Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12694
Keywords
chromosome doubling; doubled haploid; false positives; flow cytometry; haploid identification; stomata
Funding
- Universitat Hohenheim
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Reliable discrimination of haploid (H), doubled haploid (DH) and crossing (C) plants in early growth stages could streamline DH production in maize. By detecting in early growth stages undesirable sterile H plants and undesirable heterozygous C plants, a large proportion of resources required for DH production could be saved. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of early classification of plants in growth stages V3-V4 as H, DH or C in the context of DH production using flow cytometry and stomata length. As the reference classification, we used a field score based on plant phenotype commonly applied in DH production and research. Our results show that identification of misclassified C seeds is possible because the overlap in distributions of stomata length between H&DH and C plants is small and the association between flow cytometry and the reference field score is high. In contrast, overlap between H and DH distributions is substantial. Consequently, the main application we see for these classification methods in early growth stages is the identification of C seedlings.
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