Variation in induction of homoeologous pairing among chromosomes of 6x Hordeum parodii as a result of three triticale (×Triticosecale Wittmack) cultivars

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Gupta ◽  
George Fedak
Keyword(s):  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Intergeneric Hybrids ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Homoeologous Pairing ◽  
Telomeric Heterochromatin ◽  
Triticosecale Wittmack ◽  
Heterochromatin Content

Intergeneric hybrids were obtained between Hordeum parodii Covas s.1. (6x) and three cultivars of triticale (×Triticosecale) at frequencies of 0.47 to 1.21% of pollinated florets. The triticale cultivars varied in their chromosome constitutions of the rye genome as well as the telomeric heterochromatin content of some of the rye chromosomes. The average chiasmata frequency per cell varied from 0.58 to 13.14 in different hybrid combinations. The differences in the chiasmata frequencies in the different hybrid combinations were attributed to a meiotic pairing control mechanism in H. parodii whose function was affected primarily by the rye chromosome constitutions of the triticale cultivars and to a lesser extent by the heterochromatin content of the rye chromosomes.Key words: hybrids (intergeneric), Hordeum, meiotic pairing control, chiasma.

Heterochromatin content and early endosperm development in 42-chromosome spring triticale

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Gustafson ◽  
A. J. Lukaszewski ◽  
B. Skovmand
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Endosperm Development ◽  
Test Weight ◽  
Subsequent Test ◽  
Wheat Improvement ◽  
Spring Triticale ◽  
Secale Cereale L ◽  
Telomeric Heterochromatin ◽  
Triticosecale Wittmack ◽  
Heterochromatin Content

An analysis of several triticales (× Triticosecale Wittmack) from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) breeding program showed a strong correlation (r = 0.97, p ≤ 0.01) between test weight and the frequency of aberrant-nucleus formation in early endosperm development. The measurements of rye (Secale cereale L.) heterochromatin content indicated that, as compared with an average rye, in substituted triticales it was reduced by 21.4–49.8% and by 9.3 and 30% from that of two complete rye genome triticales analyzed. No correlation was observed between gross heterochromatin content and frequency of aberrant endosperm nucleus production and (or) test weight. However, both percentage heterochromatin and the production of aberrant endosperm nuclei were greatly reduced as compared with the average triticale previously analyzed. In addition, significant correlations were observed between the frequency of aberrant endosperm nuclei and the amount of telomeric heterochromatin on chromosomes 5R (r = −0.60, p ≤ 0.10) and 6R (r = 0.76, p ≤ 0.05). These results suggest that the presence or absence of telomeric heterochromatin on different rye chromosomes on triticale may have different effects on the regularity of early endosperm development and subsequent test weight at maturity. Furthermore, once the total amount of telomeric heterochromatin present on rye chromosomes was greatly reduced it appeared that other genetic factors became visibly involved in irregularities of endosperm development.

Intergeneric hybrids between Thinopyrum and Psathyrostachys (Triticeae)

Genome ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 845-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R.-C. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Genome Analysis ◽  
Parental Species ◽  
Intergeneric Hybrids ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Green Leaves ◽  
Psathyrostachys Juncea ◽  
Basic Genome ◽  
Chromosome Associations ◽  
Thinopyrum Elongatum ◽  
First Time

Intergeneric hybrids were synthesized for the first time from the diploid crosses Thinopyrum elongatum (JeJe) × Psathyrostachys juncea (NjNj), T. elongatum × P. fragilis (NfNf), T. bessarabicum (JbJb) × P. huashanica (NhNh), and T. bessarabicum × P. juncea, as well as from a cross between the amphidiploid of T. bessarabicum × T. elongatum (JbJbJeJe) and P. juncea. Spikes of these hybrids are morphologically intermediate between those of the parental species. Double spikelets occurred occasionally at central nodes of the spikes. Glaucous blue leaves appeared in the F1 only in the cross T. bessarabicum × P. huashanica, suggesting that the gene(s) for glaucous blue leaves in T. bessarabicum is (are) recessive to a gene(s) for green leaves in P. juncea but is (are) dominant to that for yellowish green leaves in P. huashanica. Meiotic pairing at metaphase I in these diploid (JN) and triploid (JJN) hybrids revealed a very low level of homology between the basic J and N genome. Therefore, the J and N genomes are nonhomologous and justifiably represented by different genome symbols. The triploid hybrids exhibited a pattern of chromosome associations that substantiated the earlier conclusion that the genomes in T. bessarabicum and T. elongatum are two versions of a basic genome (J). These hybrids will be useful in genome analysis, forming new Leymus species with the J and N genomes and broadening the diversity in the genus Pascopyrum with the SHJN genomes.Key words: hybrid, Thinopyrum, Psathyrostachys, genome.

The Effect of Homoeologous Meiotic Pairing in Tetraploid Hordeum bulbosum L. × H. vulgare L. Hybrids on Alien Introgressions in Offspring

2016 ◽  
Vol 150 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margret Scholz ◽  
Galina Pendinen
Keyword(s):  
Interspecific Hybrids ◽  
In Situ Hybridisation ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Hordeum Bulbosum ◽  
Homoeologous Pairing ◽  
Introgression Breeding ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Pairing Behaviour

The pairing behaviour of the individual chromosome arms of Hordeum vulgare (Hv) with their homoeologous arms of H. bulbosum (Hb) at metaphase I of meiosis in tetraploid Hb × Hv hybrids and the frequencies of recombined Hv chromosome arms in selfed offspring were studied on differentially visualized chromosomes after fluorescent in situ hybridisation. The frequencies of paired Hv-Hb arms in the F2 and F3 hybrids were correlated with the frequencies of recombined Hv chromosomes in progenies. Self-generation of hybrids, the number of Hv and Hb chromosomes, and the number of recombined Hv chromosomes of the hybrids strongly influenced the Hv-Hb pairing frequency in meiosis. Within the offspring of F2 and F3 hybrids both Hv plants and hybrids were detected. In contrast, all progenies of the F4 hybrid were hybrids which exhibited centromere misdivisions. The highest frequencies of homoeologous pairing in hybrids and most recombinants were obtained for the barley chromosome 1HL. Recombinants for 4HL, 5HS, 6HS, and 7HS were rarely found. Meiotic pairing and recombinants involving chromosome 1HS were never observed. The results of this study demonstrate that fertile tetraploid interspecific hybrids with a high intergenomic pairing at meiosis are valuable basic material for introgression breeding in barley.

Effect of Ph2 mutants promoting homoeologous pairing on spindle sensitivity to colchicine in common wheat

Genome ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 658-663
Author(s):  
Carla Ceoloni ◽  
Moshe Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Common Wheat ◽  
Suppressor Gene ◽  
Intergeneric Hybrids ◽  
Differential Sensitivity ◽  
Root Tip ◽  
Lower Sensitivity ◽  
Homoeologous Pairing ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Cellular Target ◽  
Chromosome Arm

Two lines of common wheat cv. Chinese Spring carrying mutant alleles for the Ph2 homoeologous pairing-suppressor gene on chromosome arm 3DS promoting homoeologous pairing in wheat interspecific and intergeneric hybrids have been tested for their mitotic sensitivity to colchicine. Both the ph2a mutation, which corresponds to a fairly long deletion of 3DS, and ph2b, which is either an intragenic change or a very small deletion, as well as the ph2a/ph2b heteroallelic combination and the deficiency for the entire 3DS arm (ditelo 3DL), conditioned a significantly lower sensitivity to colchicine than that determined by the wild-type allele Ph2 (euploid and ditelo 3DS). Observation of both metaphase and anaphse root-tip cell populations, treated with various colchicine concentrations, provided similar results. The degree of spindle disruption in 2 × 10−4 M colchicine, as measured by the percentage of fully affected metaphases (C type), was significantly reduced in ph2 and Ph2− genotypes and, consequently, a larger proportion of cells could proceed toward anaphase and also had a regular segregation pattern at this stage. The differential sensitivity of ph2 genotypes to colchicine is in the opposite direction to that previously found for ph1 genotypes, lacking the homoeologous pairing suppressor on chromosome arm 5BL. The ph2 mutation, while promoting homoeologous pairing as ph1 does, decreases spindle sensitivity to colchicine with respect to the wild-type (ph2) allele rather than increasing it, as ph1 does. The observed alteration of spindle sensitivity to colchicine that mutants for structurally unrelated but functionally related genes (Ph1 and Ph2) condition is interpreted as a highly probable coincidence in their cellular target. It is assumed therefore that these loci affect the equilibrium between tubulin and microtubules. Through this effect they presumably determine chromosome positioning in somatic and premeiotic stages, leading to different pairing patterns at meiosis. Key words: Triticum aestivum, tubulin, pairing suppressors, somatic association.

scholarly journals PAIRING COMPETITION BETWEEN IDENTICAL AND HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES IN AUTOTETRAPLOID RYE. I. SUBMETACENTRIC CHROMOSOMES

Genetics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 933-944
Author(s):  
J Orellana ◽  
J L Santos
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Control ◽  
Secale Cereale ◽  
Inbred Lines ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Homologous Chromosomes ◽  
Partner Exchange ◽  
Pairing Behavior ◽  
Chromosome 1R ◽  
Heterochromatin Content

ABSTRACT Meiotic pairing preferences between identical and homologous but not identical chromosomes were analyzed in ten induced tetraploid/diploid chimaeral rye plants (Secale cereale) heterozygous for telomeric heerochromatin C-bands in both arms of chromosome 1R. These plants were the progeny of two crosses between only one plant of cv. Petkus, used as male, and two plants of the inbred lines E and R, respectively. Different pairing preferences for chromosome 1R were found: (1) between plants, (2) between chromosome arms within the same plant and (3) between bivalents and multivalents within the same plant. The possible influence in the preferences of several factors such as differences in C-heterochromatin content in the chromosomes analyzed, specific genetic control and independence in pairing behavior between both arms and partner exchange is discussed.

scholarly journals PAIRING COMPETITION BETWEEN IDENTICAL AND HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES IN RYE AND GRASSHOPPERS

Genetics ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-684
Author(s):  
J L Santos ◽  
J Orellana ◽  
R Giraldez
Keyword(s):  
Secale Cereale ◽  
Banding Pattern ◽  
Chromosome Pair ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Homologous Pairing ◽  
Eyprepocnemis Plorans ◽  
Homologous Chromosomes ◽  
Random Pairing ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Telomeric Heterochromatin

ABSTRACT Meiotic pairing preferences between identical and homologous but not identical chromosomes were analyzed in spontaneous tetraploid/diploid chimeras of three male grasshoppers (Eyprepocnemis plorans) whose chromosome pair 11 were heterozygous for C-banding pattern and in four induced tetraploid/diploid chimaeral rye plants (Secale cereale) heterozygous for telomeric heterochromatin C-bands in chromosomes 1R and 2R. In the grasshoppers, a preference for identical over homologous pairing was observed, whereas in rye both a preference for homologous rather than identical pairing and random pairing between the four chromosomes of the set was found. From the results in rye, it can be deduced that pairing preferences do not depend exclusively on the similarities between chromosomes involved. It is suggested that genotypic or cryptic structural differences between the homologous chromosomes of each pair analyzed might be responsible for the pairing preferences found. This hypothesis can also explain the results obtained in grasshoppers, although the possibility of premeiotic association cannot be excluded in this material.

scholarly journals Wheat mutants permitting homoeologous meiotic chromosome pairing

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Wall ◽  
Ralph Riley ◽  
Victor Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Secale Cereale ◽  
Meiotic Chromosome ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Homoeologous Pairing ◽  
Homozygous Condition ◽  
Meiotic Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Homoeologous Chromosomes

SUMMARYPlants of Triticum aestivum (2n = 6x = 42) ditelocentric 5BL were treated with EMS in order to produce mutations in the 5B system by which meiotic pairing between homoeologous chromosomes is normally prevented. To check for the occurrence of mutation T. aestivum ditelo-5BL plants were pollinated with rye (Secale cereale 2n = 14) and meiosis was examined in the resulting hybrids.Wheat-rye hybrids were scored for the presence of mutants when the wheat parents were either the EMS-treated wheat plants, or their selfed derivatives, or their progenies obtained after pollination with untreated euploid individuals.Mutants were detected by each of these procedures and mutant gametes were produced by the treated ditelocentric plants with frequencies between 1·5 and 2·5%, but there were differences between the mutants in the extent to which homoeologous pairing occurred in the derived wheat-rye hybrids. The differences may have resulted from the occurrence of mutation at different loci or to different extents at the same locus.Two mutants, Mutant 10/13 and Mutant 61, were fixed in the homozygous condition. Mutant 10/13 was made homozygous both in the 5BL ditelocentric and in the euploid conditions but these genotypes regularly formed 21 bivalents at meiosis, and there was no indication of homoeologous pairing although the mutant 10/13 gave rise to homoeologous pairing in wheat-rye hybrids.

The Effect of Spindle Inhibitors Applied before Meiosis on Meiotic Chromosome Pairing

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. DOVER ◽  
R. RILEY
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Chloral Hydrate ◽  
Control Mechanism ◽  
Meiotic Chromosome ◽  
Chiasma Formation ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Mitotic Spindles ◽  
Pollen Mother Cells ◽  
Meiotic Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Mother Cells

Injection of 0.5% colchicine into immature tillers of genotypes of Triticum aestivum, T. aestivum x Aegilops mutica and T. aestivum x Secale cereale hybrids induces asynapsis at first meiotic metaphase irrespective of the homologous or homoeologous nature of the potential pairing chromosomes. The induction of asynapsis occurs at a time during and immediately following the last premeiotic mitosis of pollen mother cells. No disruption of synapsis and chiasma formation occurs in anthers having pollen mother cells originally at leptotene or immediately prior to leptotene when cultured in White's medium plus colchicine. Tetraploid and octaploid pollen mother cells resulting from the disruption of premeiotic spindles by colchicine show pairing of chromosomes only in bivalents, in genotypes normally having a degree of multivalent pairing configurations. The induction of multipolar mitotic spindles with 0.01% colchicine results in the development of pollen mother cell mosaics with different numbers of chromosomes. Such cells show high levels of chromosome pairing, including multivalents, in some genotypes that normally have very little chromosome pairing. The injection of 0.5% chloral hydrate during the last premeiotic mitosis of the archesporium causes no disturbances of meiotic pairing. The results are discussed with reference to the hypothesis that the control mechanism of meiotic chromosome pairing involves centromeric microtubules of the spindle (not affected by chloral hydrate) that are responsible for the positional adjustment, during the last mitotic anaphase, of potential pairing partners.

scholarly journals The position of a locus on chromosome 5B of Triticum aestivum affecting homoeologous meiotic pairing

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Wall ◽  
Ralph Riley ◽  
M. D. Gale
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Single Locus ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Homoeologous Pairing ◽  
Chromosome 5B ◽  
Homoeologous Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Mutant Locus ◽  
Homoeologous Chromosomes ◽  
Pairing Behaviour

SUMMARYAn investigation was made of the chromosomal position of the mutant locus, in Mutant 10/13 of Triticum aestivum (2n = 6x = 42), affecting homoeologous chromosome pairing at meiosis. In hybrids between Mutant 10/13 and rye (Secale cereale 2n = 14), homoeologous chromosomes frequently pair at meiosis although normally, in wheat-rye hybrids, this happens infrequently.The association of the mutant condition with chromosome 5B was determined by (i) the absence of segregation in hybrids obtained when Mutant 10/13 monosomic 5B was pollinated by rye; (ii) the occurrence of trisomie segregation for pairing behaviour in 28-chromosome wheat-rye hybrids, obtained from SB trisomie wheat parents with two 5B chromosome from a non-mutant and one from a mutant parent; (iii) the absence of segregation for pairing behaviour in the 29-chromosome wheat-rye hybrids obtained from the same trisomie wheat parents.The alternative pairing behaviours segregated independently of the centromere when wheat plants that were simultaneously heteromorphic, 5BL telocentric/5B complete, and heterozygous for the Mutant 10/13 state, were pollinated by rye. The alternative chromosome-pairing patterns segregated to give a ratio not different from 1:1, so that the association of homoeologous pairing with Mutant 10/13 probably derived from the occurrence of mutation at a single locus on 5BL. In the disomic heteromorphic state, 5BL was 91 map units in length.Trisomie wheats with two complete 5B chromosomes and one 5BL telocentric, that were also heterozygous for the Mutant 10/13 condition, were pollinated by rye. Among the resulting 28-chromosome hybrids there was a 2:1 segregation of hybrids with low pairing: high (homoeologous) pairing and also of hybrids with complete 5B: telocentric 5BL. However, there was no evidence of linkage in this trisomie segregation. All the 29-chromosome hybrids from this cross had low pairing and it could be concluded that the single mutant allele, in Mutant 10/13, was recessive. In the trisomie condition, relative to a simplex situation, 5BL was 33·05 map units in length.The critical locus on 5BL was designated Pairing homoeologous. The normal dominant allele was symbolized Ph and the recessive allele, in Mutant 10/13, ph.The prevention of homoeologous pairing by the activity of a single locus makes the evolution of the regular meiotic behaviour of T. aestivum more readily comprehensible.

Production and meiotic pairing of intergeneric hybrids of Triticum × Dasypyrum species

Euphytica ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. von Bothmer ◽  
L. Claesson
Keyword(s):  
Intergeneric Hybrids ◽  
Meiotic Pairing
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