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Electrofusion and Plant Somatic Hybridization

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The transfer of genetic information between sexually incompatible species creates unique experimental opportunities for geneticists and cell biologists. This is especially true of plant somatic cell fusion because the totipotency of plant cells makes it possible to grow fusion products into mature plants (reviewed by Gleba and Sytnik, 1984; Vasil and Vasil, 1980). Although Carlson et al. (1972) reported recovering the first interspecific plant hybrid through protoplast fusion in 1972, subsequent progress in this field has been slower than originally hoped. This problem is due to several biological and technical barriers. This chapter describes our progress in the application of electrofusion to plant somatic hybridization (see Bates et al., 1983; Bates, 1985; Bates and Hasenkampf, 1985) and suggests solutions to some of the problems in this field.

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  1. Clare A. Hasenkampf

    Present address: Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA

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  1. Department of Biological Science and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306, USA

    George W. Bates, Lawrence J. Nea & Clare A. Hasenkampf

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Bates, G.W., Nea, L.J., Hasenkampf, C.A. (1987). Electrofusion and Plant Somatic Hybridization. In: Sowers, A.E. (eds) Cell Fusion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9598-1_24

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