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In five genetically different inbred lines of rye and in the seven ‘Chinese Spring’/‘Imperial’ wheatrye addition lines, chiasma distribution in rye chromosomes was studied with respect to the amount and position of constitutive heterochromatin (Giemsa C-bands). In all inbred lines, rye chromosomes with one primary terminal band were more frequently found as univalents than those with primary bands on both telomeres. These chromosomes were most probably 5R and/or 6R. In the addition lines a highly significant reduction in the number of arms bound by chiasmata was found for rye chromosomes 5R and 6R. Because of the similar chiasma distribution in the inbred lines and in the rye chromosomes of the addition lines, no effect of the wheat genome on the number of chiasmata in the rye chromosomes can be ascertained. However, a relationship between chiasma frequency and chromosome arm length seems to exist, since under reduced chiasma conditions the two shortest arms of the rye complement, those of chromosomes 5R and 6R, frequently fail to form a chiasma. No effect of the large blocks of constitutive heterochromatin in the telomeres of the rye chromosomes on the position of chiasmata within a bivalent could be established.
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Drögemüller, E.M., Lelley, T. Chiasma distribution in rye chromosomes of diploid rye and in wheat/rye addition lines in relation to C-heterochromatin. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 67, 457–461 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00263412
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