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The nucleolus organizer region located on the short arm of chromosome 1R of rye consists of a large cluster of genes that code for ribosomal RNA (designated the Nor-R1 locus). The genes in the cluster are separated by spacer regions which can vary in length in different rye lines. Differences in the spacer regions were scored in two families of F2 progeny. Segregation also occurred, in one or both of the families, at two seed protein loci and at two isozyme loci also located on chromosome 1R. The seed protein loci were identified as the Sec 1 locus controlling ω-secalins located on the short arm of chromosome 1R and the Sec 3 locus controlling high-molecular-weight secalins located on the long arm of 1R. The two isozyme loci were the Gpi-R1 locus controlling glucose-phosphate isomerase isozymes and the Pgd 2 locus controlling phosphogluconate dehydrogenase isozymes. The data indicated linkage between all five loci and map distances were calculated. The results indicate a gene order: Pgd 2 ... Sec 3 ... [centromere] ... Nor-R1 ... Gpi-R1 ... Sec 1. Evidence was obtained that rye possesses a minor 5S RNA locus (chromosome location unknown) in addition to the major 5S RNA locus previously shown to be located on the short arm of chromosome 1R.
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Lawrence, G.J., Appels, R. Mapping the nucleolus organizer region, seed protein loci and isozyme loci on chromosome 1R in rye. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 71, 742–749 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00263273
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