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Chapter 3with Vectashield. F<strong>in</strong>ally, photographs were taken with a Canon digital camera attached to aZeiss Axiophot fluorescence microscope.Fig. 3.1. Chromosome pair<strong>in</strong>g at metaphase I dur<strong>in</strong>g meiosis <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>terspecific hybrids <strong>of</strong> lily. (a) Apollen mother cell with 12 bivalents <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g homoeologous pair<strong>in</strong>g (006001-6); (b) Formation <strong>of</strong> aquadrivalent conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g two Asiatic and two Longiflorum <strong>chromosome</strong>s (white arrow) <strong>in</strong> one <strong>of</strong> thepollen mother cells <strong>of</strong> genotype 006001-6; (c) Formation <strong>of</strong> a trivalent <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g two <strong>chromosome</strong>sfrom Asiatic and one <strong>chromosome</strong> from Longiflorum (white arrow) <strong>in</strong> pollen mother cells <strong>of</strong> genotype006001-6; (d) Formation <strong>of</strong> a bivalent resulted from non-homologous <strong>chromosome</strong>s from Asiaticgenome (white arrow) <strong>in</strong> genotype 006001-13. Green fluorescence stands for <strong>chromosome</strong>s fromAsiatic genome and blue fluorescence stands for <strong>chromosome</strong>s from Longiflorum genome.ResultsChromosome pair<strong>in</strong>g at metaphase I <strong>in</strong> LA hybridsS<strong>in</strong>ce the two parents, L. longiflorum and Asiatic lilies, belong to two different botanicalsections, homoeologous <strong>chromosome</strong>s were clearly dist<strong>in</strong>guished <strong>in</strong> the hybrids by GISH (Fig.3.1a, b, c and d). In order to estimate the extent <strong>of</strong> <strong>chromosome</strong> pair<strong>in</strong>g, metaphase I stageswere analysed <strong>in</strong> 13 different genotypes (Table 3.1). In each case approximately 120 to 250pollen mother cells were analysed. There was a great variation regard<strong>in</strong>g the <strong>chromosome</strong>associations <strong>in</strong> different genotypes. The average number <strong>of</strong> bivalents per cell ranged from 3.936

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