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We obtained DNA clones specific to tomato chromosome 2 from a small number of chromosomes collected by flow sorting. Suspensions of metaphase chromosomes were prepared from 3-month-old tomato cell cultures of Lycopersicon pennellii. Isolated chromosomes stained with chromomycin A3 and Hoechst 33258 were analyzed on an EPICS 753 flow cytometer using a UV laser to excite Hoechst fluorescence and a 458 nm laser to excite chromomycin A3 fluorescence. Chromosomes from well-resolved peaks on a bivariate flow karyotype were sorted directly onto membrane filters for spot-blot analysis. The filters were processed and hybridized with chromosome-specific repetitive DNA probes. In this way tomato chromosome 1 and chromosome 2 were assigned to peaks in the bivariate flow karyotypes. One thousand copies of the putative chromosome 2 were flow-sorted directly into microfuge tubes. DNA specific to chromosome 2 was amplified by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique using universal 22mer degenerate oligonucleotide primers (DOP) sequences. DOP-PCR yields a smear of fragments of various sizes from 250 to 1600 bp. Amplified products were cloned into the Bluescript plasmid vector. Approximately 11 of the clones contained sequences with highly repetitive elements, and 85% contained only low-copy-number sequences. Eleven clones containing low-copy-number sequences that detect restriction fragment length polymorphisms were placed on the molecular linkage map of tomato. All showed linkage to chromosome 2.
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Arumuganathan, K., Martin, G.B., Telenius, H. et al. Chromosome 2-specific DNA clones from flow-sorted chromosomes of tomato. Molec. Gen. Genet. 242, 551–558 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285278
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