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Effects of barley chromosome on heading characters in wheat-barley chromosome addition lines

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Heading time in cereals is a composite character determined by vernalization requirement, photoperiodic sensitivity and narrow-sense earliness. To study the effects of added barley chromosomes on the heading characters in wheat, two sets of wheat-barley chromosome addition lines, i.e., ‘Betzes’ barley chromosomes 2H to 7H added to ’Chinese Spring‘ wheat (CS-Be2H to CS-Be7H) and ‘New Golden’ barley chromosomes 5H and 6H added to ‘Shinchunaga’ wheat (Shi-NG5H, Shi-NG6H), were examined for their heading characters. All barley chromosomes except Be6H affected vernalization requirement and/or narrow-sense earliness in CS or Shi. Be5H chromosome also slightly increased the photoperiodic sensitivity of CS. Shi-NG5H addition line showed significantly decreased vernalization requirement in comparison with Shi, whereas CS-Be5H did not show any difference from CS. The F1 hybrid of the cross, Shi-NG5H × CS-Be5H, exhibited the same level of vernalization insensitivity as the Shi-NG5H addition line, and plants with and without a vernalization requirement segregated in a 1 : 3 ratio in the F2 generation. These observations, together with previous reports, suggest that the decreased vernalization requirement in the Shi-NG5H addition line was caused by the presence of a major dominant gene for spring habit, Sh2, located on the NG5H barley chromosome. Furthermore, this study revealed that the Sh2 gene in barley has a similar but weaker effect than the wheat vernalization insensitive gene, Vrn1, on the vernalization response in wheat.

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  1. Research Institute of Agricultural Resources, Ishikawa Agricultural College, Nonoichi-machi, Ishikawa, 921, Japan

    Koji Murai & Takiko Shimada

  2. Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University, Matsudo, Chiba, 271, Japan

    Takato Koba

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Murai, K., Koba, T. & Shimada, T. Effects of barley chromosome on heading characters in wheat-barley chromosome addition lines. Euphytica 96, 281–287 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003025501591

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