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Interspecific variation in C-banded chromosomes of diploid Aegilops species

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Based on an improved C-banding technique, the C-banding patterns of all 11 diploid Aegilops species were described and compared. All diploid species exhibit characteristically different patterns which enable the chromosomes of any complement to be identified individually. These patterns confirm existing genome symbols and provide further evidence for the suggested changes in genome symbols of Ae. umbellulata and Ae. sharonensis, U and Ssh respectively. Furthermore, Ae. uniaristata should be given a separate symbol, probably N. Aegilops speltoides and Ae. sharonensis could be possible donors to the B genome of wheat. Interspecific divergence in these diploid species has been accompanied by either amplification or deletion as well as massive repatterning of heterochromatin from the centromere to the telomere.

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  1. Department of Genetics and Cellular Biology, University of Malaya, 22-11, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    S. B. Teoh

  2. Plant Breeding Institute, Trumpington, Cambridge, UK

    J. Hutchinson

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Teoh, S.B., Hutchinson, J. Interspecific variation in C-banded chromosomes of diploid Aegilops species. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 65, 31–40 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276259

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