Investigation of interspecific genome-plastome incompatibility in Oenothera and Passiflora [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Jaroslav Mráček

Investigation of interspecific genome-plastome incompatibility in Oenothera and Passiflora Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Fakultät für Biologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München vorgelegt von Jaroslav Mrá ek aus Bedihoš , Tschechische Republik München 2005 1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. R. G. Herrmann 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. G. Heubl Datum der mündlichen Prüfung: 24.03.2006 CONTENT I CONTENT ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................. V 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1 1.1 Oenothera - an ideal system for studying genome-plastome interactions as well as speciation and evolutionary processes ............... 2 1.1.1 Genetics and chromosome arrangement of Oenothera ..................... 3 1.1.2 Genome-plastome incompatibility in Oenothera ............................ 9 1.1.3 Incompatible genome-plastome combination AA-III ...................... 9 1.2 Passiflora – a new model plant for genome-plastome incompatibility? .......................................................................................... 11 1.3 Nuclear genome analyses ........................................................................... 11 1.3.1 Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) .................................