The cytoplasmic hybrids, Where the nucleus is derived from only one parent and the cytoplasm is derived from both the parents are referred to as Cybrid or Cytoplast ( Cytoplasmic hybrids). The Phenomenon of formation of cybrids is regarded as Cybridization.
Applications of Cybrids
- Cybrids are important for the transfer of Cytoplasmic male Sterility, antibiotic and herbicide resistance in agriculturally useful plants.
- Two different parental genome that can not reproduce sexually (a sexual or sterile) are recombined.
- Overcomes sexual incompatibility barriers.
- Used in the study of cytoplasmic genes and their activities plant breeding experiments.
- Used in mitochondrial research and have been used to provide suggestive evidence of mitochondrial involvement in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease.
