biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 64:598-603, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/bp.2020.095

Cytogenetic insights into Festulolium

J. MAJKA1,2,*, M. MAJKA1,2, D. KOPECKÝ1, J. DOLEŽEL1
1 Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, CZ-77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
2 Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-60479 Poznan, Poland

Climate change calls for new methods and plant materials to breed crops adapted to new environmental conditions. Sustainable forage and amenity grass production during periods of severe drought and heat waves during summer, and unequal distribution of precipitation over the year will require drought-tolerant genotypes. However, high-yielding ryegrasses (Lolium spp.), which are the most commonly used grass species, suffer during abiotic stresses. Introgression of drought and heat tolerance from closely related fescues (Festuca spp.) offers an opportunity to develop superior hybrid cultivars to mitigate the negative impact of climate change. Intergeneric cross-hybridization and the development of Festulolium (Festuca × Lolium) hybrids was initiated 100 years ago and resulted in registration of almost one hundred cultivars. For a long time, their genome composition was not known and was debated by breeders and geneticists. In the last three decades, molecular cytogenetic and genomic approaches have enabled their detailed characterization. These studies revealed a gradual replacement of Festuca chromosomes by those of Lolium in consecutive generations leading to an almost complete elimination of Festuca chromatin in the introgression forms. On the other hand, amphiploid cultivars seem to be more stable with the optimal proportions of the Lolium to Festuca genomes at about 2:1. In this mini review, we discuss recent advances in the analysis of the genome composition of Festulolium hybrids with a specific focus on genome (in)stability.

Keywords: chromosome pairing, Festuca spp., genome balance, genome composition, Lolium spp.

Received: June 9, 2020; Revised: June 18, 2020; Accepted: June 20, 2020; Prepublished online: September 2, 2020; Published online: September 1, 2020  Show citation

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MAJKA, J., MAJKA, M., KOPECKÝ, D., & DOLEŽEL, J. (2020). Cytogenetic insights into Festulolium. Biologia plantarum, 64, Article 598-603. https://doi.org/10.32615/bp.2020.095
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