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  • Title: [Abnormal meiosis in bisporic mutants of white button mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach].
    Author: Mazheĭka IS, Kolomiets OL, D'iakov IuT, Bogdanov IuF.
    Journal: Genetika; 2006 Mar; 42(3):361-8. PubMed ID: 16649662.
    Abstract:
    A formerly developed method of obtaining spread preparations of mushroom basidial nuclei was applied to study of meiotic prophase I in bisporic white button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) strains. Meiotic recombination and assemblage of axial structures (axial elements and synaptonemal complexes) of chromosomes in meiotic prophase I are interrelated. It is known that the frequency of meiotic recombination is reduced in the bisporic A. bisporus variety. We showed that formation of axial structures of meiotic chromosomes in bisporic strains of this mushroom was disrupted. The phenotypes of disruptions in spread prophase nuclei are diverse. In leptotene and early zygotene, many nuclei contain abnormal, often short, and, as a rule, few chromosomal axial elements. The abnormalities in the formation of synaptonemal complexes at the zygotene-diplotene stage are of the same kind and even more pronounced. We discovered an important feature of meiosis in A. bisporus associated with fruit-body morphogenesis. Meiosis starting in basidia (meiocytes) of young closed fruit bodies is accompanied by disruption of chromatin condensation in prophase I and, probably, is arrested. After indusium breakage, the course of meiosis normalizes. Preparations with clearly observable chromosomal axial structures can be obtained only at this stage of fruit-body development.
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