Intraspecific Variation and Multicircularity in Brassica Mitochondrial Dnas

AUTOR(ES)

Palmer, J. D.

RESUMO

Intraspecific variation was examined among 25 mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs), representing between two and five lines of eight agriculturally important Brassica species. Each of the approximately 140 restriction sites surveyed was invariant within each species. Only two length polymorphisms, deletions of 700 bp and 100 bp in a Brassica nigra line, were detected. A single inversion polymorphism was found; this distinguished two different mtDNA populations within a single line of Brassica hirta. Approximately 60% of the mtDNA molecules in this line and in two other B. hirta lines were identical, whereas the other 40% of the molecules in the first line differed by a 62-kb inversion. Levels of within-species variability in mtDNA appear to be lower in Brassica than in other groups of plants. These mtDNA comparisons are in agreement with cpDNA studies regarding the maternal ancestry of three amphidiploid Brassica species. This agreement and others imply that the two cytoplasmic genomes must have shared a common, maternal mode of transmission throughout the history of the genus. Finally, analysis of a supercoiled fraction of mtDNA from cauliflower (Brassica oleracea) provides the strongest evidence yet in support of the multicircular model for plant mtDNAs.

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