Wolbachia is an intracellular microbe found in a wide diversity of arthropod and filarial nematode hosts. In arthropods these common bacteria are reproductive parasites that manipulate central elements of their host's reproduction to increase their own maternal transmission in one of several ways. Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is one such manipulation where sperm are somehow modified in infe...

Wild Solanum species have often been used as sources of important agricultural traits, including resistance to various diseases, pests, and abiotic factors. However, their large-scale use in potato breeding is limited by complex barriers sexual incompatibility with tuberosum. Fusion protoplasts enzymatically isolated from somatic cells one the approaches overcoming incompatibility. The diverse ...

The intracellular bacterial parasites of the genus Wolbachia are widespread among arthropod species. In many hosts, they induce a reproductive incompatibility between uninfected females and infected males. The potential role of this cytoplasmic incompatibility in speciation processes of the bacteria’s hosts has long been debated. In this thesis, we analyze common criticisms of such a role by me...

To the best of our knowledge, there is no report about pollen fertility progenies developed using eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) as a seed parent and cytoplasmic substitution lines parents. Pollen these very important to use restorer line in eggplant’s hybrid breeding program. In this study, was investigated for which were produced S. ‘Uttara’ assess fertility, stainability vitro germination a...