Metaphase-I analysis of a Triticum aestivum x T. monococcum hybrid by the C-banding technique

Euphytica ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M. Gonz�lez ◽  
Sylvie Bernard ◽  
Michel Bernard
Genome ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Morais ◽  
A. Queiroz ◽  
W. Viegas ◽  
A. Roca ◽  
T. Naranjo

Nullisomic 5D – tetrasomic 5B wheat plants were grown at 20 and 16 °C, and the level of paired and unpaired lateral elements in synaptonemal complex (SC) spreads was quantified in early-mid prophase I cells to ascertain the origin of the low frequency of metaphase I associations observed in plants held at 16 °C in the absence of the Ltp1 gene located on the long arm of chromosome 5D. The distribution of chromosome arm associations in metaphase I cells was studied using the C-banding technique. The results obtained confirm that asynapsis was the main cause of the reduction in the level of association in metaphase I at low temperature. Although a nonrandom distribution of chromosome arm associations at metaphase I was observed at both temperatures, this tendency was more visible at 16 °C, leading to the suggestion that at low temperatures differences in the specific ability of chromosome arms to form SCs and chiasmata are enhanced.Key words: synaptonemal complex, Ltp1 gene, metaphase I bonds, wheat, C-banding.


Genome ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 686-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Papa ◽  
R. Morris ◽  
J. W. Schmidt

Two winter hexaploid triticale populations derived from the same cross were selected on the basis of grain appearance and agronomic performance. The five lines from 84LT402 showed more kernel shriveling than the four lines from 84LT401. The derived lines were analyzed for aneuploid frequencies, rye chromosome banding patterns, and meiotic stability to detect associations with kernel development. The aneuploid frequencies were 16% in 84LT401 and 18% in 84LT402. C-banding showed that both selection groups had all the rye chromosomes except 2R. The two groups had similar telomeric patterns but differed in the long-arm interstitial patterns of 4R and 5R. Compared with lines from 84LT402, those from 84LT401 had significantly fewer univalents and rod bivalents, and more paired arms at metaphase I; fewer laggards and bridges at anaphase I; and a higher frequency of normal tetrads. There were no significant differences among lines within each group for any meiotic character. Since there were no differences within or between groups in telomeric banding patterns, the differences in kernel shriveling and meiotic stability might be due to genotypic factors and (or) differences in the interstitial patterns of 4R and 5R. By selecting plump grains, lines with improved kernel characteristics along with improved meiotic stability are obtainable.Key words: triticale, meiotic stability, C-banding, Secale cereale, heterochromatin.


Genome ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 834-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Juan ◽  
E. Petitpierre

The relative amount of C-banded heterochromatin varies strikingly in seven species of tenebrionid beetles, from 25 to 58%, but most species show procentric bands only. Nevertheless, Gonocephalum patruele exhibits an almost completely heterochromatic X chromosome. The nuclear DNA content of Feulgen-stained spermatids has yielded up to a threefold difference, from 0.27 to 0.86 pg, which is not completely in accordance with the amount of C-banded heterochromatin. However, the genome sizes correlate significantly with the total chromosome areas at metaphase I and with the spermatid areas. Furthermore, the genome sizes agree with the subfamilial taxonomic groupings of these tenebrionids.Key words: Tenebrionidae, genome size, C-banding.


Genome ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Friebe ◽  
E. D. Badaeva ◽  
B. S. Gill ◽  
N. A. Tuleen

C-banded karyotypes of a complete set of 14 Triticum peregrinum whole chromosome addition lines and 25 telosomic addition lines are reported. The added T. peregrinum chromosomes were not structurally rearranged compared with the corresponding chromosomes of the donor accession. Comprehensive karyotypic analysis confirmed Triticum umbellulatum as the donor species of the Uv genome and identified Triticum longissimum as the donor species of the Sv genome of T. peregrinum. Neither the Uv nor Sv genome chromosomes of the T. peregrinum accession showed large modifications when compared with the ancestral U and S1 genomes. Key words : Triticum aestivum, Triticum peregrinum, Triticum umbellulatum, Triticum longissimum, chromosome addition lines, C-banding.


1983 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dvořák

Triticum aestivum chromosome "4A" is, like the B genome chromosomes, extensively heterochromatic while the remaining six A genome chromosomes are not. In the presence of the Ph gene it does not pair with any chromosome of einkorn wheats, T. monococcum and T. urartu, the source of the A genome. It is shown here that the same chromosome is also present in T. timopheevii which represents the other evolutionary lineage of wheats. The "4A" chromosomes of T. timopheevii and T. aestivum pair poorly with each other, like the B genome chromosomes of the two lineages, while the remaining A genome chromosomes, except for one arm, pair relatively well. Hence, in both lineages chromosome "4A" has the attributes of the B genome chromosomes, not of the A genome chromosomes. The C-banding pattern of chromosome "4A" of T. aestivum and T. timopheevii closely resembles the C-banding pattern of a chromosome of T. speltoides and less closely chromosome 4B1 of T. sharonense. On the basis of this and other evidence it is concluded that this chromosome was contributed by a species of the section Sitopsis and, consequently, belongs to the B genome. Additionally, there is evidence that the chromosome that was originally designated "4B" belongs to the A genome.


Genome ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Naranjo ◽  
P. Fernández-Rueda ◽  
P. G. Goicoechea ◽  
A. Roca ◽  
R. Giráldez

The relationship between homoeologous pairing at metaphase I and recombination at anaphase I between the arms 1AL, 1BL, 1DL, and 1RL was analyzed in ph1b, 5B-deficient, and ph2b wheat × rye hybrids. All four arms could be identified at metaphase I, as well as the arms 1BL and 1RL at anaphase I, by means of C-banding. On the basis of the C-heterochromatin constitution that 1BL and 1RL showed at anaphase I and that association at metaphase I was essentially homoeologous, the following anaphase I chromosome types could be distinguished: parental type, single and double recombinant types between 1BL and 1AL or 1DL, between 1BL and 1RL, and between 1RL and 1AL or 1DL. Recombinant types 1AL – 1DL did not differ from the parental type for the C-banding pattern and was not considered. In the three genotypes, most if not all of 1BL – 1AL, 1BL – 1DL, and 1BL – 1RL metaphase I bonds were chiasmatic. 1RL – 1AL and 1RL – 1DL associations were scarce. Frequencies of one chiasma and two chiasmata for the arm combinations 1BL – 1AL plus 1BL – 1DL, 1BL – 1RL, and 1RL – 1AL plus 1RL – 1DL were estimated. Values decreased in the order ph1b, 5B-deficient, and ph2b hybrids.Key words: C-banding, chiasmata, homoeologues, anaphase I, ph genes.


1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
J.S. Heslop-Harrison ◽  
M.D. Bennett

Complete reconstructions of all the bivalents were made from electron micrographs of serial sections through six pollen mother cells at metaphase I of meiosis in Triticum aestivum (hexaploid bread wheat). At least two of these metaphases contained interlocked pairs of bivalents. In one, two ring bivalents were interlocked, while in another a rod bivalent ran through the centre of a ring bivalent. Two other groups of bivalents were too closely appressed to allow separation into individual bivalents and may have contained interlocks. Meiosis in other anthers of the same plants examined by light microscopy was considered normal. The frequency of interlocking found was much higher than reported from light-microscope spreads. Not all interlocks in metaphase I cells need adversely affect meiosis, but knowledge of their regularity and form may facilitate understanding the processes of chromosome pairing.


Genome ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1262-1270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Zhi Wei ◽  
William F. Campbell ◽  
Richard R.-C. Wang

Ten accessions of Russian wildrye, Psathyrostachys juncea (Fisch.) Nevski (2n = 2x = 14; NsNs), collected from different geographical regions were analyzed using the C-banding technique. C-banding pattern polymorphisms were observed at all levels, i.e., within homologous chromosome pairs of the same plant, among different individuals within accessions, between different accessions of the same geographic area, and among accessions of different origins. The seven homologous groups varied in the level of C-banding pattern polymorphism; chromosomes A, B, E, and F were more variable than chromosomes C, D, and G. The polymorphisms did not hamper chromosome identification in Ps. juncea, because each chromosome pair of the Ns genome had a different basic C-banding pattern and karyotypic character. A standard C-banded karyotype of Ps. juncea is proposed based on the overall karyotypes and C-bands in the 10 accessions. The C-bands on the Ns-genome chromosomes were designated according to the rules of nomenclature used in wheat. A deletion–translocation heterozygote of Russian wildrye was identified based on the karyotype and C-banding patterns established. The chromosome F pair consisted of a chromosome having the distal segment in the long arm deleted and a translocated chromosome having the distal segment of long arm replaced by the distal segment of the long arm of chromosome E. The chromosome E pair had a normal chromosome E and a translocated chromosome having the short arm and the proximal segment of the long arm of chromosome E and the distal segment of the long arm of chromosome F.Key words: Psathyrostachys juncea, karyotype, Giemsa C-banding, polymorphism, B chromosome.


2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 1271-1285 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. S. Dedkova ◽  
E. D. Badaeva ◽  
O. P. Mitrofanova ◽  
E. N. Bilinskaya ◽  
V. A. Pukhalskiy

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