ABSTRACT
Ploidy determination is very important, especially in breeding programs, to allow the correct choice of plant material to work. The relation between DNA content and ploidy level still has some controversies in literature, so the present study had the aim of evaluate DNA content in banana accesses with different ploidy levels. Data were evaluated from six tetraploid, four triploids and four diploids accesses. 50-60 mg of leave material were crushed with material from internal standard (Pisum sativum) in LB01 buffer and then filtered through gauze and 50 µm filter. It was added 5 µL of RNase and 25 µL of propide iodate. For each sample 10 thousand nuclei were analyzed with three repetitions. The DNA content results allowed separating genome A and B. Genome A appeared to be 14% major than genome B. Results showed a clear relationship between DNA content and ploidy level. DNA content increased 30% on average from diploid to triploid cultivars and 25% from triploid cultivars to tetraploid cultivars. Despite the size difference between genome A and B it could not be found a direct relationship between the contribution of these two genomes and the size of DNA content in tetraploid cultivars.
Index terms
Musa sp. DNA content; Ploidy; Flow cytometry
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