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The Giemsa C-banding technique was used to identify individual meiotic and somatic chromosomes in 21 monosomic lines of Avena byzantina C. Koch cv ‘Kanota’ (genome designation AACCDD). The hexaploid complement is composed of three sets of seven chromosome pairs. The heterochromatin in the putative diploid progenitors is located at the telomeres (genome A), at the centromeric and interstitial regions (genome C), or more evenly spread throughout the set (genome D). Comparisons based on C-banding between A. byzantina and its diploid progenitor species allowed us to allocate individual chromosomes into specific genomes. The C-banding technique may be useful for interspecific chromosome pairing analyses. Nucleolar activity and competition were studied using a silver-staining procedure. Only three chromosome pairs showed nucleolar organizer regions, thus indicating that nucleolar competition occurs naturally in hexaploid oats.
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Linares, C., Vega, C., Ferrer, E. et al. Identification of C-banded chromosomes in meiosis and the analysis of nucleolar activity in Avena byzantina C. Koch cv ‘Kanota’. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 83, 650–654 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226911
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