Abstract
In hexaploid wheat and diploid rye, different varieties have different numbers of ribosomal RNA genes as indicated by rRNA/DNA hybridisation. Wheat has four different chromosomes which carry nucleolar organisers. Analyses of DNA isolated from substitution lines in which each of these nucleolar organiser chromosomes of several varieties has been substituted one at a time into a common genetic background, have indicated that none of the four organiser chromosomes possess an invariant number of ribosomal RNA genes. The ribosomal RNA gene complement of the varieties investigated can be approximately accounted for by the sum of the ribosomal RNA genes on each of the four nucleolar organiser chromosomes.
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Flavell, R.B., Smith, D.B. Variation in nucleolar organiser rRNA gene multiplicity in wheat and rye. Chromosoma 47, 327–334 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00328865
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