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Factors leading to hybrid lethality in Nicotiana

Posted on July 28th, 2010 by Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison

Hybrid lethality is a type of postzygotic isolation and is observed in some species of Nicotiana in association with genes encoded on the Q chromosome. Tezuka et al. (pp. 267–276) make interspecific crosses of eight wild species with cultivated tobacco, N. tabacum, and find only one, N. fragrans, that produces 100 % viable hybrids. They [...]