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<strong>Scientific</strong> <strong>Papers</strong>. <strong>Series</strong> B, <strong>Horticulture</strong>. Vol. LVII, 2013Print ISSN 2285-5653, CD-ROM ISSN 2285-5661, Online ISSN 2286-1580, ISSN-L 2285-5653IDENTIFICATION OF PLOIDY LEVEL ON VARIETIESAND HYBRIDS OF KIWIFRUIT (ACTINIDIA SP.)Ramona COTRU 1 , Florin STNIC 1 , Giuseppe SCAPIGLIATI 21 University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, 59 Marasti Blvd,District 1, 011464, Bucharest, Romania2 Department for Innovation in Biological systems, Food, Agriculture and Forestry (DIBAF),University of Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis snc, 01100, Viterbo, ItaliaAbstractCorresponding author email: ramona_cotrut@yahoo.comThe genus Actinidia includes over 66 species and over 118 taxon, that range in ploidy level from diploid to octoploid.Although there is basic information on ploidy levels of various species, sampling has been limited and little informationon specific cultivars and hybrids is available. The objective of this research was to determine ploidy levels among adiverse collection of species, hybrids, and cultivars using flow cytometry. Nuclei were extracted, stained with propidiumiodide (PI), and analyzed using a flow cytometer. Among the selections tested we found Actinidia arguta as diploid (2n= 2x) and tetraploid (2n = 4x), Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward' as hexaploid (2n = 6x), Actinidia chinensis'Soreli' tetraploid (2n = 4x) and the interspecific hybrid A. arguta x A. deliciosa as diploid (2n = 2x). This informationprovides further insight into reproductive biology, substantiation of numerous hybrids and induced polyploids that willhelp facilitate the development of improved hybrids in the future.Key words: chromosomes, flow cytometry, interspecific hybrid, polyploidy, plant breeding.INTRODUCTIONvariation in ploidy make hybridization betweenActinidia species difficult. Better knowledgeCommercial kiwifruit production is based onand understanding of polyploidy of cultivarstwo Actinidia species, A. deliciosa C.F. Ling etand hybrids could facilitate kiwifruitA.R. Ferguson and A. chinensis Planch.improvement.Nevertheless, at present, A. arguta isPolyploidy has been an important process in thecommercially cultivated in Oregon in US, Chileevolution of plants and is an important factor inand New Zealand, and small-scale productionplant breeding because it can influencefor local consumption is conducted in manyreproductive compatibility, fertility, andregions under a relatively cool climatephenotypic traits (Chen and Ni, 2006; Jones(Ferguson and Huang, 2001). The genusand Ranney, 2009; Ranney, 2006; Soltis et al.,Actinidia Lindl. comprises 66 species and about2004). Hence, accurate and specific knowledge118 taxa with remarkably wide natural rangeof ploidy levels of species and cultivars isextending from the tropics (latitude 0º) to coldimportant information for kiwi breeders.temperate regions (50º N). Since the first seedThe base chromosome number for Actinidia isintroduction of A. deliciosa was made from 1n = 1x = 29. However, different subgeneraChina to New Zeeland in 1904, the economic contain species with a variety of ploidy levelspotential of kiwifruit has been extensively ranging from 2n = 2x = 58 to 2n = 6x =174;exploited (Ferguson and Bollard 1990).respectively 2n = 8x =232. The range in ploidyThere is considerable genetic diversity amongst levels within this genus also provides anthe species within the genus Actinidia, opportunity to indirectly substantiate hybridityparticularly in fruit skin type, skin colour, flesh when parents differ in ploidy levels.colour and flavour (Ferguson and Huang, Because many Actinidia species are polyploids2007).with high chromosome numbers, traditionalThis diversity provides many opportunities for cytology based on light microscopicdeveloping new types of kiwifruit. Dioecy, examination is a difficult and time-consuminglong generation cycles, high heterozygosity and process.189

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