Dr. Amy Iezzoni
A342B Plant & Soil Sciences Building
Michigan State University
Department of Horticulture
Phone:  517/355-3505
Email: iezzoni@.msu.edu

Assigned Reading List

Male sterility

Chaudhury AM. 1993. Nuclear genes controlling male fertility. Plant Cell 5:1277-1283.

Jones HA and AE Clarke. 1943. Inheritance of male sterility in onion and the production of hybrid seed. Proc. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci 43: 189-194.

Schnable PS and RP Wise. 1998. The molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration. Trends in Plant Science 3:175-180.

Levings CS 1996. Infertility treatment: A nuclear restorer gene in maize. Science 272: 1279-1280.

Mariani C, M de Beuckelerr, J Truettner, J Leemans and RB Goldberg. 1990. Induction of male sterility in plants by a chimaeric ribonuclease gene. Nature 347:737-741.

Mariani C, V Gossele, M de Beuckeller, M de Bloci, RB Goldberg, W de Greef, and J Leemans. 1992. A chimeric ribonuclease-inhibitor gene restores fertility to male sterile plants. Nature 357: 384-387.


Gametophytic selection

Zamir D, S Tanksley, and RA Jones. 1981. Low temperature effect on selective fertilization by pollen mixtures of wild and cultivated tomato species. Theor Appl Genet 59: 235-238.


Gametophytic and sporophytic self-incompatibility

McCubbin AG and T-h Kao. 2002. Molecular recognition and response in pollen and pistil interactions. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 16: 333-364.


Polyploidy

General
Eckart NA. 2001. A sense of self: The role of DNA sequence elimination in allopolyploidization. Plant Cell 13: 1699-1704.

Thompson JD and R Lumaret. 1992. The evolutionary dynamics of polyploid plants: Origins, establishment and persistence. TREE 7:302-307.

Soltis PS and DE Soltis. 2000. The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids. Proc Nat Acad Sci 97: 7051-7057.

Beaver JA and AF Iezzoni. 1993. Allozyme inheritance in tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L). J Amer Soc Hort Sci. 118:873-877.

Potato
Bretagnolle F and JD Thomspon. 1995. Gametes with the somatic chromosome number: mechanisms of their formation and role in the evolution of polyploid plants. New Phytol 129: 1-22.

Carputo D, A Barone and L Frusciante. 2000. 2n gametes in the potato: essential ingredients for breeding and germplasm transfer. Theor Appl Genet 101:805-813.

Physical mapping
Andersen et al. 1992. Development of a chromosomal arm map for wheat based on RFLP markers. Theor. Appl. Genetics 83:1035

Linkage mapping
Sorrells ME. 1992. Development and application of RFLPs in polyploids. Crop Science 32:1086-1091.