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Genetic Cause of Hybrid Lethality Observed in Reciprocal Interspecific Crosses between Nicotiana simulans and N. tabacum

by
Takahiro Tezuka
1,2,3,4,*,
Shota Nagai
1,
Chihiro Matsuo
4,
Toshiaki Okamori
4,
Takahiro Iizuka
3 and
Wataru Marubashi
5
1
Graduate School of Agriculture, Osaka Metropolitan University, Sakai 599-8531, Osaka, Japan
2
Education and Research Field, School of Agriculture, Osaka Metropolitan University, Sakai 599-8531, Osaka, Japan
3
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai 599-8531, Osaka, Japan
4
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai 599-8531, Osaka, Japan
5
School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki 214-8571, Kanagawa, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(2), 1226; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25021226
Submission received: 22 December 2023 / Revised: 17 January 2024 / Accepted: 17 January 2024 / Published: 19 January 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular and Cellular Characterizations: Reproductive Development in Plants)
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Hybrid lethality, a type of postzygotic reproductive isolation, is an obstacle to wide hybridization breeding. Here, we report the hybrid lethality that was observed in crosses between the cultivated tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum (section Nicotiana), and the wild tobacco species, Nicotiana simulans (section Suaveolentes). Reciprocal hybrid seedlings were inviable at 28 °C, and the lethality was characterized by browning of the hypocotyl and roots, suggesting that hybrid lethality is due to the interaction of nuclear genomes derived from each parental species, and not to a cytoplasmic effect. Hybrid lethality was temperature-sensitive and suppressed at 36 °C. However, when hybrid seedlings cultured at 36 °C were transferred to 28 °C, all of them showed hybrid lethality. After crossing between an N. tabacum monosomic line missing one copy of the Q chromosome and N. simulans, hybrid seedlings with or without the Q chromosome were inviable and viable, respectively. These results indicated that gene(s) on the Q chromosome are responsible for hybrid lethality and also suggested that N. simulans has the same allele at the Hybrid Lethality A1 (HLA1) locus responsible for hybrid lethality as other species in the section Suaveolentes. Haplotype analysis around the HLA1 locus suggested that there are at least six and two haplotypes containing Hla1-1 and hla1-2 alleles, respectively, in the section Suaveolentes.

1. Introduction

The wide hybridization between distant relatives enables the interspecific gene transfer from wild relatives into cultivated species. This method has been used for a long time and is an important tool to develop new cultivars in plant breeding [1,2,3]. However, wide hybridization breeding is often disturbed, because species are usually reproductively isolated from each other. Reproductive isolation is divided into premating, postmating–prezygotic, and postzygotic isolation barriers, and the latter two barriers are the main obstacles to wide hybridization breeding. A typical example of postmating–prezygotic barriers is the cross-incompatibility between pollen and pistils [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. Postzygotic barriers include hybrid seed abortion [4,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36], hybrid weaknesses [37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47], hybrid lethality [32,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60] or necrosis [61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71], and hybrid sterility [72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79] in plants of the F1 generation, and hybrid breakdown is expressed as weaknesses, lethality, or sterility in plants of F2 or later generations [49,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89]. Methods to overcome or bypass reproductive isolation are in demand for successful wide hybridization breeding [32].
The genus Nicotiana (Solanaceae) contains 90 species classified into 13 sections, which are predominantly distributed in the Americas and Australia [90,91]. Among Nicotiana species, cultivated tobacco, N. tabacum (2n = 48, SSTT), is an important cash crop. One of the main objectives of breeding programs of N. tabacum is to develop disease-resistant cultivars. For this purpose, wild species are useful as genetic resources, and several resistance genes, such as tobacco mosaic virus resistance gene N from N. glutinosa [92,93,94,95,96], and black shank resistance genes Php from N. plumbaginifolia and Phl from N. longiflora [97,98], have been introduced into N. tabacum by interspecific crossings. Another important usefulness of wild species is as a source of cytoplasmic male sterility in N. tabacum [99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108].
Australian wild species, N. simulans (2n = 40), which belongs to section Suaveolentes, is useful as a source of breeding material. This species is resistant to blue mold and powdery mildew [109,110] and is used as a source of cytoplasmic male sterile N. tabacum [111,112]. However, we revealed here that hybrid seedlings between N. simulans and N. tabacum showed hybrid lethality. To use the hybrid seedlings as the starting material for tobacco breeding, it is necessary to clarify the characteristics and underlying mechanism of hybrid lethality.
Section Suaveolentes consists of approx. 48 allotetraploid species, which are endemic to Australasia, and one allotetraploid species, N. africana, in Africa [91,113]. This section is monophyletic, and the species have chromosome numbers ranging from n = 15 to 24. After the appearance of a common ancestor at 5–6 Mya, extant species of section Suaveolentes are likely to have arisen through dysploid chromosome reduction [113,114,115,116,117].
Hybrid seedlings obtained from crosses between many Suaveolentes species and N. tabacum show hybrid lethality. Many of the hybrid lethality cases are caused by the epistatic interaction between the dominant allele Hla1-1 at the Hybrid Lethality A1 (HLA1) locus in Suaveolentes species and gene(s) on the N. tabacum Q chromosome, probably the dominant allele Hla2-1 at the HLA2 (synonym NtHL1) locus [56,118,119,120,121,122]. Hybrid lethality, which is called type II, is characterized by early symptoms experienced by hybrid seedlings: the browning of hypocotyl and roots. Another characteristic of type II hybrid lethality is temperature sensitivity; hybrid lethality is observed at 28 °C but suppressed at elevated temperatures ranging from 34 to 37 °C [56,121,123,124,125]. Several studies suggested that the disease resistance response is involved in type II hybrid lethality [126,127,128]. However, other hybrid lethality cases resulting from different gene combinations were also observed depending on the cross-combination [129,130]. Therefore, it is assumed that N. simulans has Hla1-1, but this needs to be verified.
A possible method to investigate whether N. simulans has the Hla1-1 allele is the complementation test by triple crosses between hybrids of N. simulans with Hla1-1 carriers and N. tabacum. However, this strategy would be hampered, because hybrids between Suaveolentes species are often sterile [120,131,132,133,134]. Alternatively, it is useful to characterize hybrid lethality by the phenotype and responsible chromosome. Thus, in the present study, we investigated phenotypic symptoms and the temperature sensitivity of hybrid lethality in crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum. The N. tabacum chromosome responsible for hybrid lethality was identified by crossing experiments using an N. tabacum monosomic line for the Q chromosome. We then carried out haplotype analysis for the candidate region of the HLA1 locus using 13 Suaveolentes species including N. simulans to determine the region containing the locus.

2. Results

2.1. Type of Hybrid Lethality Observed in Reciprocal Hybrids

Hybrid seeds were obtained from reciprocal crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum after conventional cross-pollination (Table 1). Although only a small number of N. tabacum flowers was pollinated with N. simulans, the N. tabacum flowers produced few capsules (16.7% of flowers pollinated) compared with the reciprocal cross (85% of flowers pollinated); five of six flowers of N. tabacum dropped approximately 7 days after pollination (DAP) when pollinated with N. simulans. The percentage of seed germination was also different depending on the cross-direction: 68.8% when N. simulans was used as the female parent and 2.5% when it was used as the male parent.
All 247 hybrid seedlings obtained from reciprocal crosses were inviable at 28 °C (Table 1, Figure 1A–I). Hybrid seedlings grew normally until about 3 days after germination (DAG), but their hypocotyls turned brown in a few days, followed by the browning of roots (Figure 1A–C). These symptoms were characteristics of type II hybrid lethality. Although the degree of seedling growth varied from seedling to seedling (Figure 1D–G), all the seedlings eventually died (Figure 1H,I). Type II hybrid lethality was observed in reciprocal crosses, suggesting that hybrid lethality is due to the interaction between nuclear genomes derived from each parental species, or perhaps more exactly, genes in each nuclear genome, and not to a cytoplasmic effect.

2.2. Effect of Elevated Temperature on Hybrid Lethality

Twenty-five hybrid seedlings from the cross N. simulans × N. tabacum were newly obtained from 35 seeds sown in vitro at 28 °C. These seedlings were cultured at 36 °C to investigate whether hybrid lethality is suppressed at elevated temperatures. Hybrid seedlings grew normally without lethal symptoms at 36 °C (Figure 1J,K). When the hybrid seedlings were transferred from 36 °C to 28 °C at 55 DAG, they showed type II lethality and died.

2.3. Involvement of the Q chromosome in Hybrid Lethality

To determine whether the Q chromosome of N. tabacum is responsible for hybrid lethality, monosomic analysis using N. tabacum monosomic plants missing one copy of the Q chromosome was carried out. The monosomic plants were used as maternal parents for crossing with N. simulans, because the transmission of the monosomic condition through pollen is very low in N. tabacum [135]. Firstly, we carried out conventional cross-pollination to obtain hybrid seeds. However, 30 pollinated flowers of N. tabacum monosomic plants dropped approximately 7 DAP. The ovaries and ovules of these flowers did not enlarge, suggesting that fertilization did not occur. To bypass the possible prezygotic barrier, test-tube fertilization and ovule culture were carried out. Fifteen placentas of monosomic plants were pollinated with N. simulans pollen, resulting in 341 enlarged ovules. After ovule culture, 50 hybrid seedlings were obtained and cultured at 36 °C to suppress hybrid lethality.
Thirty-six hybrid seedlings were assessed for the presence or absence of the Q chromosome using four Q-chromosome-specific sequence tagged site (STS) markers [118,136] (Table 2). All the markers were detected in 6 hybrid seedlings but not in 30 hybrid seedlings. When the hybrid seedlings were transferred from 36 °C to 28 °C, all seedlings possessing the Q chromosome died, whereas all seedlings lacking the Q chromosome survived without lethal symptoms.

2.4. Haplotype Analysis of the HLA1 Candidate Region

The Q chromosome was found to be responsible for type II hybrid lethality in crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum as that in the cross between N. forsteri (synonym N. debneyi) and N. tabacum. Because N. simulans and N. forsteri are closely related species, both belonging to the monophyletic section Suaveolentes, N. simulans would have the Hla1-1 allele at the HLA1 locus, which was originally identified in N. forsteri [120]. This enabled us to investigate the candidate region of the HLA1 locus in Suaveolentes species by haplotype analysis.
The HLA1 locus was mapped between two cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) markers, Nb14-CAPS and NbRGH1-CAPS, using the F2 population derived from the cross N. forsteri × N. fragrans [137]. These markers were located in the Niben101Scf06736 scaffold in the N. benthamiana v1.0.1 genome [138]. In the present study, we developed three new CAPS markers showing polymorphism between N. forsteri and N. fragrans based on the scaffold (Supplemental Table S1). Genotypes of all the five markers in 13 Suaveolentes species were investigated (Table 3). Eight haplotypes were recognized in this region, although the exact haplotype of N. megalosiphon could not be determined, due to the heterozygosity. Haplotypes Hap1–6 were observed in species with the Hla1-1 allele, and Hap3 was the most common haplotype. In species with the hla1-2 allele, two haplotypes (Hap7 and Hap8) were observed. A linkage disequilibrium was observed between Nb49-CAPS and NbRGH1-CAPS, suggesting that the HLA1 locus is located in this region. However, the marker genotypes of Nb14-CAPS also matched well with the HLA1 genotypes.

3. Discussion

For breeding purposes, it is important to clarify the underlying mechanism of hybrid lethality. This allows us to consider whether to use existing methods or develop new methods to overcome hybrid lethality. Hybrid lethality, which is caused by the epistatic interaction of the Hla1-1 allele from Suaveolentes species and the Hla2-1 allele from N. tabacum, is characterized by its lethal symptoms observed as the browning of hypocotyl and roots as well as temperature sensitivity [56,121,123,124,125]. All these characteristics were observed in crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum. Furthermore, as well as crosses between other Suaveolentes species and N. tabacum [56,118,119,121], the Q chromosome containing the HLA2 locus from N. tabacum was involved in hybrid lethality in crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum. Altogether, these results indicated that N. simulans has the Hla1-1 allele.
Previous studies have suggested that the disease resistance response is related to the type II hybrid lethality caused by Hla1-1 and Hla2-1 alleles. The involvement of several disease-resistance-related genes has been reported in crosses of N. tabacum with N. gossei (Hla1-1) and N. suaveolens (Hla1-1) [125,126,128]. Features of programmed cell death, which are similar to the hypersensitive response, a type of programmed cell death associated with the plant defense response, were observed in crosses of N. tabacum with N. forsteri, N. gossei, and N. suaveolens [124,139,140]. Furthermore, the Hla2-1 allele in N. tabacum encodes a coiled-coil nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (CC-NBS-LRR) protein, which might be involved in disease resistance. Considering that hybrid seedlings of the cross N. simulans × N. tabacum exhibited the same lethal symptoms and temperature sensitivity as those derived from crosses between other Suaveolentes species and N. tabacum, downstream factors of hybrid lethality triggered by Hla1-1 and Hla2-1 alleles would be conserved among N. simulans and other Suaveolentes species.
Although several methods to overcome hybrid lethality have been developed in the genus Nicotiana, their effectiveness varies depending on the type of hybrid lethality [123]. Therefore, the demonstration that N. simulans has the Hla1-1 allele has great significance for overcoming hybrid lethality in crosses with N. tabacum. Strong similarities in hybrid lethality suggest that several overcoming methods developed for other cross-combinations of Suaveolentes species and N. tabacum may be applicable to crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum. Tissue cultures using cotyledons of hybrid seedlings before showing lethal symptoms are effective at overcoming hybrid lethality in crosses of N. tabacum with N. forsteri, N. rosulata, and N. suaveolens [141,142]. Viable hybrids can be also obtained by the application of cytokinin to hybrid seeds or seedlings in the cross N. suaveolens × N. tabacum [143,144]. In the cross N. gossei × N. tabacum, viable hybrids are obtained by using N. tabacum pollen irradiated with γ-rays or ion beams for the cross [145]. By using these methods, it would be possible to obtain viable hybrids from crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum, which can be used as the starting material for breeding.
The HLA1 locus was mapped between markers Nb14-CAPS and NbRGH1-CAPS within a 21.7 cM genetic distance [137]. Considering that many Suaveolentes species have the Hla1-1 allele, these species might have the same haplotype in the candidate region of the HLA1 locus. Haplotype analysis in the present study suggested that the HLA1 locus is located in the region including Nb14-CAPS or the region including Nb49-CAPS and NbRGH1-CAPS. These results provide useful information for future positional cloning efforts. Elucidating the function of the HLA1 gene will contribute to understanding and overcoming hybrid lethality.

4. Materials and Methods

4.1. Plant Materials

Nicotiana tabacum (2n = 48, SSTT) ‘Red Russian’ was used as the parent for reciprocal crosses with N. simulans (2n = 40). We also used monosomic plants (2n = 47) for the Q chromosome of N. tabacum, which can be readily identified among F1 progeny obtained from the cross N. tabacum Haplo-Q (2n = 47; a monosomic line for the Q chromosome) × N. tabacum ‘Samsun NN’ using Q-chromosome-specific DNA markers [136]. For marker analysis of the HLA1 candidate region, we used 12 additional Suaveolentes species: N. africana, N. benthamiana, N. forsteri, N. excelsior, N. fragrans, N. goodspeedii, N. gossei, N. ingulba, N. maritima, N. megalosiphon, N. suaveolens, and N. velutina. All plants were cultivated in a greenhouse under natural day length, and fertigated at each watering with Otsuka-A nutrient solution (OAT Agrio Co., Tokyo, Japan).

4.2. Interspecific Crosses

Conventional crossing and sowing were carried out as follows: flowers of plants used as maternal parents were emasculated one day before anthesis and pollinated with the pollen of paternal parents. F1 seeds were sterilized with 5% sodium hypochlorite for 15 min. The sterilized seeds were sown in Petri dishes (90 mm diameter, 17 mm depth) containing 25 mL of 1/2 MS medium [146] supplemented with 1% sucrose and solidified with 0.2% Gelrite (pH 5.8), and then cultured at 28 °C under continuous illumination (approximately 150 µmol m−2 s−1). We investigated the number of capsules obtained after crosses and seed germination rates to evaluate the presence or absence of reproductive barriers.
Test-tube fertilization in combination with ovule culture was performed as previously described [147] to obtain hybrid seedlings between N. tabacum Q-chromosome monosomic plants (♀) and N. simulans (♂). Anthers of N. simulans plants were aseptically excised from still-closed flowers and stimulated to dehisce in an incubator held at 28 °C. Flowers of monosomic plants were emasculated one day before anthesis. On the next day, flowers of monosomic plants were collected and their corolla, sepals, and styles were removed. The ovaries were surface-sterilized with 70% ethanol for 30 s followed by a 5% sodium hypochlorite solution for 5 min. The ovary walls were peeled back to expose the placentas with intact ovules and the ovaries were then placed in Petri dishes (60 mm diameter, 17 mm depth) containing 8 mL of medium supplemented with 3% sucrose and solidified with 0.8% agar (pH 5.8). Pollen of N. simulans was spread on the surface of the placentas, which were then maintained at 28 °C under continuous illumination. Fertilized and enlarged ovules were excised from placentas 10 to 14 DAP and cultured in Petri dishes (60 mm diameter, 17 mm depth) containing 8 mL of 1/2 MS medium supplemented with 3% sucrose and solidified with 0.8% agar (pH 5.8) at 28 °C under continuous illumination.

4.3. Cultivation of Hybrid Seedlings

Hybrid seedlings obtained from reciprocal crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum by conventional crossing were cultured at 28 or 36 °C under continuous illumination. At 30 DAG, these seedlings were subcultured into flat-bottomed test tubes (30 mm diameter, 120 mm length) that contained 25 mL of 1/2 MS medium supplemented with 1% sucrose and solidified with 0.2% Gelrite (pH 5.8). Then, the seedlings were subcultured to fresh medium every three weeks. Seedlings cultured at 36 °C for 55 DAG were transferred to 28 °C under continuous illumination to investigate whether these seedlings showed hybrid lethality. Finally, seedlings cultured at 28 °C for 72 DAG and those cultured at 28 °C for 35 days after transfer from 36 °C (90 DAG) were transplanted to pots filled with a 3:1 (v/v) mixture of peat-moss (Super Cell-Top V; Sakata Seed Co., Yokohama, Japan) and vermiculite (Nittai Co., Osaka, Japan) and cultivated at 28 °C. Seedlings were fertigated at each watering with Otsuka-A nutrient solution (OAT Agrio Co., Tokyo, Japan).
Hybrid seedlings obtained from the cross between N. tabacum Q-chromosome monosomic plants and N. simulans by test-tube fertilization with ovule culture were transferred to flat-bottomed test tubes (30 mm diameter, 120 mm length) that contained 25 mL of 1/2 MS medium supplemented with 1% sucrose and solidified with 0.2% Gelrite (pH 5.8) immediately after germination and cultured at 36 °C under continuous illumination. The seedlings were subcultured to fresh medium every three weeks. After analyses using Q-chromosome-specific DNA markers, the seedlings were transferred to 28 °C under continuous illumination.

4.4. Detection of Q-Chromosome-Specific DNA Markers

Total DNA was extracted from the leaves of each plant from the cross between N. tabacum Q-chromosome monosomic plants and N. simulans using a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)-based method [148]. Four Q-chromosome-specific STS markers, QCS1, QCS2, QCS3, and QCS4 [118,136], were detected by conventional PCR as follows. Reaction mixtures consisted of 1× Standard Buffer (BioAcademia, Suita, Japan), 0.2 mM of each dNTP, 0.2 µM of each primer, 20 ng of template DNA, and 0.5 U of Taq DNA polymerase (BioAcademia) in a total volume of 20 µL. PCR amplification was performed using the TProfessional Basic Thermocycler (Biometra, Göttingen, Germany) programmed for 3 min at 94 °C for initial denaturation, followed by 35 cycles of 30 s at 94 °C, 30 s at 60 °C, and 30–90 s at 72 °C, with a final 5 min extension at 72 °C. PCR products were separated by electrophoresis in 1.5% agarose gels with TBE buffer and were then visualized by staining with ethidium bromide.

4.5. Marker Analysis for the HLA1 Candidate Region

Total DNA was extracted from the young leaves of each Nicotiana species using a CTAB-based method [148]. Two CAPS markers linked to HLA1, Nb14-CAPS and NbRGH1-CAPS, were detected as previously described [137]. In the HLA1 candidate region between these markers, three new CAPS markers, Nb45-CAPS, Nb48-CAPS, and Nb49-CAPS (Table S1), were developed based on the sequence of Niben101Scf06736 scaffold in the v1.0.1 draft genome sequence of N. benthamiana [138], and detected as in the previous study [137].

5. Conclusions

Reciprocal hybrid seedlings from crosses between N. simulans and N. tabacum exhibited type II hybrid lethality characterized by browning of the hypocotyl and roots, suggesting that hybrid lethality is due to the interaction of nuclear genomes derived from each parental species, and not to a cytoplasmic effect. Hybrid lethality was temperature-sensitive and suppressed at 36 °C. Furthermore, the Q chromosome containing the HLA2 locus from N. tabacum was revealed to be involved in hybrid lethality. Altogether, these results indicated that N. simulans has the Hla1-1 allele, the same allele at the HLA1 locus as many other species in the Nicotiana section Suaveolentes. Haplotype analysis around the HLA1 locus suggested that there are at least six and two haplotypes containing Hla1-1 and hla1-2 alleles, respectively, in the section Suaveolentes. Elucidating the function of the HLA1 gene through positional cloning efforts will contribute to understanding and overcoming hybrid lethality.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/ijms25021226/s1.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, T.T.; methodology, T.T.; validation, T.T. and S.N.; investigation, C.M., S.N., T.O. and T.I.; data curation, T.T.; writing—original draft preparation, T.T.; writing—review and editing, T.T.; visualization, T.T.; supervision, T.T. and W.M.; project administration, T.T. and W.M.; funding acquisition, T.T. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP20880024, JP25870627, JP17K15224, and JP20K05988 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.

Acknowledgments

We thank the Leaf Tobacco Research Center, Japan Tobacco Inc., Oyama, Japan, for providing seeds of cultivated and wild species of the genus Nicotiana, and Tomoaki Kubo, the Iwata Tobacco Experiment Station of Japan Tobacco Inc., for the gift of Haplo-Q.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.

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Figure 1. Appearances of hybrid seedlings from the cross N. simulans × N. tabacum at 28 °C (A–I) and 36 °C (J,K). (A) A 4 DAG hybrid seedling showing slight browning of hypocotyl. (B,C) A 33 DAG hybrid seedling photographed from the top (B) and bottom (C) of the Petri dish. The hypocotyl and base of roots turned brown. (D–G) Different degree of plant growth observed in hybrid seedlings showing lethality at 60 DAG. (H,I) A hybrid seedling at 79 and 134 DAG (H,I, respectively) after acclimatization. (J,K) Totals of 30 and 47 DAG hybrid seedlings (J,K, respectively) showing normal plant growth by suppressing hybrid lethality at 36 °C. Scale bars = 1 (A–C) or 10 mm (D–K).
Figure 1. Appearances of hybrid seedlings from the cross N. simulans × N. tabacum at 28 °C (A–I) and 36 °C (J,K). (A) A 4 DAG hybrid seedling showing slight browning of hypocotyl. (B,C) A 33 DAG hybrid seedling photographed from the top (B) and bottom (C) of the Petri dish. The hypocotyl and base of roots turned brown. (D–G) Different degree of plant growth observed in hybrid seedlings showing lethality at 60 DAG. (H,I) A hybrid seedling at 79 and 134 DAG (H,I, respectively) after acclimatization. (J,K) Totals of 30 and 47 DAG hybrid seedlings (J,K, respectively) showing normal plant growth by suppressing hybrid lethality at 36 °C. Scale bars = 1 (A–C) or 10 mm (D–K).
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Table 1. Viability of reciprocal hybrids between N. simulans and N. tabacum at 28 °C.
Table 1. Viability of reciprocal hybrids between N. simulans and N. tabacum at 28 °C.
Cross Combination
(♀ × ♂)		No. of Flowers PollinatedNo. of Capsules ObtainedNo. of Seeds SownNo. of Hybrids ObtainedLethality Type 1
TotalViableInviable
N. simulans × N. tabacum20173522420242II
N. tabacum × N. simulans61199505II
1 Type II, browning of hypocotyl and roots.
Table 2. Relationship between the Q chromosome and hybrid lethality in crosses between N. tabacum and N. simulans.
Table 2. Relationship between the Q chromosome and hybrid lethality in crosses between N. tabacum and N. simulans.
Cross Combination (♀ × ♂)STS Markers 1No. of Hybrids
TotalViableInviable
(Haplo-Q × ‘Samsun NN’) × N. simulans+606
−30300
1 ‘+’ indicates that Q-chromosome-specific STS markers were detected and ‘−’ indicates that they were not.
Table 3. Haplotypes identified in the HLA1 candidate region.
Table 3. Haplotypes identified in the HLA1 candidate region.
HaplotypeSpeciesAllele at the HLA1 LocusMarker
Nb14-CAPS
(150 kb) 1		Nb45-CAPS
(624 kb)		Nb48-CAPS
(725 kb)		Nb49-CAPS
(747 kb)		NbRGH1-CAPS
(832 kb) 3
Hap1N. forsteriHla1-1AA 2AAAAAAAA
Hap2N. ingulba, N. simulansHla1-1AAAABBAAAA
Hap3N. excelsior, N. goodspeedii, N. gossei, N. maritima, N. velutinaHla1-1AABBBBAAAA
Hap4N. suaveolensHla1-1AABB−AAAA
Hap5N. megalosiphonHla1-1ABAB−AAAA
Hap6N. africanaHla1-1AABBCCAAB
Hap7N. benthamianahla1-2BBBBBBAAAA
Hap8N. fragranshla1-2BBBBBBBBB
1 Value in parenthesis indicates the approximate position of the marker in the Niben101Scf06736 scaffold in the v1.0.1 genome of N. benthamiana. 2 ‘A’ and ‘B’ indicate N. forsteri-type and N. fragrans-type alleles, respectively. ‘−’ indicates no detectable band. 3 This marker cannot discriminate between AB and BB genotypes [137].
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