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Structural evolution of wheat chromosomes 4A, 5A, and 7B and its impact on recombination

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The construction of comparative genetic maps of chromosomes 4Am and 5Am of Triticum monococcum and chromosomes of homoeologous groups 4, 5 and 7 of T. aestivum has provided insight into the evolution of these chromosomes. The structures of chromosomes 4A, 5A and 7B of modern-day hexaploid bread wheat can be explained by a 4AL/5AL translocation that occurred at the diploid level and is present both in T. monococcum and T. aestivum. Three further rearrangements, a 4AL/7BS translocation, a pericentric inversion and a paracentric inversion, have taken place in the tetraploid progenitor of hexaploid wheat. These structural rearrangements and the evolution of chromosomes 4A, 5A and 7B of bread wheat are discussed. The presence of the 4AL/5AL translocation in several Triticeae genomes raises two questions — which state is the more primitive, and is the translocation of mono- or poly-phylogenetic origin?

The rearrangements that have occurred in chromosome 4A resulted in segments of both arms having different positions relative to the telomere, compared to 4Am and to 4B and 4D. Comparisons of map length in these regions indicate that genetic length is a function of distance from the telomere, with the distal regions showing the highest recombination.

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  1. John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UH, Colney, Norwich, UK

    K. M. Devos, C. N. Chinoy & M. D. Gale

  2. Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

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Devos, K.M., Dubcovsky, J., Dvořák, J. et al. Structural evolution of wheat chromosomes 4A, 5A, and 7B and its impact on recombination. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 91, 282–288 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00220890

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