THE ORIGIN OF TRITICUM SPELTA AND ITS FREE-THRESHING HEXAPLOID RELATIVES
THE ORIGIN OF TRITICUM SPELTA AND ITS FREE-THRESHING HEXAPLOID RELATIVES
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DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a105590
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发表时间:
1946-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
SEARS, ER
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作者:
MCFADDEN, ES;SEARS, ER
The hexaploid wheat Triticum spelta (n [long dash]21) is distinguished from the tetraploids T. dicoccum and T. dicoccoides (n [long dash]14) by a group of characters possessed by Aegilops squarrosa (n = 7). Hybrids of A. squarrosa with T. dicoccoides closely resembled T. spelta but were sterile. Through colchicine treatment an amphiploid of T. dicoccoides X A. squarrosa was obtained. This synthetic hexaploid (n =21) was very similar to T. spelta and formed highly fertile and cytologically regular hybrids with T. spelta and T. vulgare It is postulated that T. spelta arose, possibly in fairly recent times, in s.-e. Europe or s.-w. Asia as an amphiploid of T. dicoccoides (or T. dicoccum) X A. squarrosa. It is believed to have been carried over a northerly route into central and western Europe, where, within historic times, it hybridized with a free-threshing tetraploid ancestor of T. persicum[long dash]probably the now extinct Lake Dweller wheat. As segregates of this hybrid, the other European hexaploid wheats, T. vulgare and T. compactum, are thought to have arisen. The Asiatic hexaploid wheats, T. speltiforme, T. rigidum, T. macha, and T. vavilovi, may have originated as amphiploids of tetraploid wheats and various diploid species of Aegilops having chromosomes similar to those of A. squarrosa. It is suggested that the Lake Dweller wheat arose as an amphidiploid of T. monococcum ( = 7) X Agropyron triticeum (n = 7). A. cylindrica is shown to be an amphidiploid of A. caudata (n = 7) X A. squarrosa.