GENETIC CONTROL OF CHROMOSOME PAIRING IN INTERGENERIC HYBRIDS WITH WHEAT
GENETIC CONTROL OF CHROMOSOME PAIRING IN INTERGENERIC HYBRIDS WITH WHEAT
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DOI:
10.1038/1831244a0
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发表时间:
1959-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
KIMBER, G
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作者:
RILEY, R;CHAPMAN, V;KIMBER, G
Previous investigations on Holdfast by Riley and Chapman [1381] revealed that control of the diploid-like meiotic behaviour ofTriticum vulgarewas exercised by a gene on a particular chromosome, designated HH. As shown by Sears and Okamoto [1098], chromosome V in Chinese Spring carries the gene responsible for restriction of homeologous pairing. It has not however yet been possible to confirm that chromosome HH is homologous with V in Chinese Spring. With a view to determining whether the genetic control restricting pairing between homeologous chromosomes inT. vulgareis also responsible for the failure of wheat chromosomes to pair with those of some species in related genera, a study was made of crosses ofT. vulgare'Chinese Spring' monosomic V withAegilops longissima(2n= 14) andSécale céréale'King II'. The monosomic parents produced gametes withn= 21 or 20, depending on whether or not the single chromosome V was included. Consequently, the same ♀ parents gave rise to hybrids with2n= 28 or 27, seven of the chromosomes being derived from the ♂ gamete. In the 28-chromosome hybrid withAe. longissima, the number of bivalents per cell never exceeded 6, the mean being only 1-96. This degree of bivalent pairing is only slightly higher than in euhaploid Holdfast. Since little homology exists within the haploid complement ofAe. longissima, a small amount of pairing between wheat andAegilopschromosomes was indicated. In 27-chromosome hybrids withAe. longissima, the frequencies of univalents, bivalents, trivalents and quadrivalents in two lots of material were respectively: 9.85 ±0.33, 7.50 ±0.35; 6.45 ± 019, 7.58 ± 0.23; 0.87 ± 009, 0.70 ± 0.08; 0.41 ± 005, 0.56 + 0.05. The ranges in the number of chromosomes conjugating were respectively 10-24 and 10-27. Univalent frequency was almost the same as in HH nullihaploid Holdfast (2n= 20), so that evidently the seven extra chromosomes were often involved in pairing. Compared with the nullihaploid, the frequency of bivalents was increased by more than half and the quadrivalent frequency 20 times. The amount of association in the 28-chromosome hybrid with rye was not higher than in euhaploid Holdfast. Although as many as 21 chromosomes might be involved in associations in one cell in the 27-chromosome hybrids with rye, on the average fewer chromosomes were paired than in HH nullihaploids of Holdfast. These 27-chromosome hybrids had, however, about the same number of trivalents and more than four times as many quadrivalents as the nullihaploids. They also contained some large complexes, associated by chiasmata and involving up to 11 chromosomes. "The large complexes probably arose because there is not a strict one-to-one relationship between rye chromosomes and wheat homoeologous groups [because] the rye chromosomes differ from chromosomes of the wheat groups by trans-locations." The significance of reducing the barrier to the pairing of wheat chromosomes with those of other genera by excluding chromosome V is discussed from the point of view of breeding, ways in which 27-chromosome hybrids may be used to obtain favourable recombinations being suggested.