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A plant with 2n = 14 + 1 ring chromosomes was obtained in the progeny of a primary trisomie for chromosome 7 of a two-rowed cultivar, Shin Ebisu 16. The morphological characteristics of the trisomic plants with an extra ring chromosome were similar to the primary trisomic for chromosome 7 (Semierect), which suggests that it originated from this chromosome. The ring chromosomes were not completely stable in mitotic cells because of abnormal behavior. Chromosome complements varied in different plants and in different roots within a plant. Root tip cells and spikes with 2n = 14 and 14 + 2 ring chromosomes were observed on plants with 14 + 1 ring chromosomes. Breakage-fusion-bridge cycle was inferred. The ring chromosome was associated with two normal homologues forming a trivalent in 17.6% sporocytes at metaphase I. The transmission of the extra ring chromosome was 23.1% in the progeny of the plant with 14 + 1 ring chromosomes. Trivalent formation may have been much higher at early prophase stages which were difficult to analyze in barley; only 4 of 120 sporocytes analyzed showed an isolated ring at pachytene. The ring chromosome moved to one pole without separation in 24.7% of the sporocytes at AI, and divided in 27.1% sporocytes giving rise to 8-8 separation. Only 10% of the sporocytes showed bridge formation at AI.
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Singh, R.J., Tsuchiya, T. Ring chromosomes in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Chromosoma 82, 133–141 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285756
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