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Number 72: 60-63 (1991)


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Proceedings of the 22th Wheat Genetics Symposium of Japan

The 22th wheat Genetics Symposium of Japan was held on December 15 and 16,1990 at Nara, Japan, chaired by Dr. T. R. Endo. The followings are the proceedings of the presentations. Addition to the reports on wheat studies, Dr. M. Hori and Dr. H. Ogura presented recent topics of human genetics and rice breeding, respectively.

Chromosome mapping by use of aneuploids in wheat

Kozo Nishikawa

Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu-shi 501-11, Japan


The term, chromosome map includes genetic map and cytological or cytogenetical map. Cytological mapping which is referred to as physical mapping in the broad sense is the subject of the Dr. Y. Mukai, the second speaker in this symposium. Dr. K. Tsunewaki, the third speaker will talk about RFLP mapping. So I will confine myself to the method of genetic mapping of morphological and isozyme markers by use of aneuploids and discussion of some problems accompanied. McIntosh (1987) described principle and method for gene location and gene mapping in hexaploid wheat. McIntosh and Cusick (1987) presented linkage map of hexaploid wheat. Nomenclature for description of wheat aneuploids was presented by Kimber and Sears (1968). With the rather few good markers available, genetic mapping in wheat has not been well developed. So some data reported in barley and cotton will be cited for supplement.


1. Hyperaneuploids

a) Trisomic: Primary trisomic had been used to determine the gene-chromosome association. Trisomic analysis is generally less efficient than monosomic analysis, and largely applied to diploid plants, which is hard to withstand hypoaneuploidy. Determination of genotypes of F2 plants with dominant character makes it possible to estimate the recombination value, but this is not realistic, because of too much time and labor to be required.

b) Monotelotrisomic (telotrisomic): Instead of primary trisomic, monotelotrisomic has been used for determining the centromere position in diploid plants such as barley. In
Fig.1, the locus A nearby and the locus B far from the centromere on the arm homologous to telocentric would show chromosome segregation and random chromatid segregation depending on respective distance from the centromere, while the locus C on the opposite arm would show disomic segregation. Thus by monotelotrisomic analysis, centromere can be positioned between markers when a considerable number of markers have been mapped on a give chromosome. This had been done by Tsuchiya and his coworkers in barley (Tsuchiya and Singh 1982). Similarly, monoacrotrisomic (acrotrisomic) analysis can provide information on the position of break point of the chromosome concerned (Tsuchiya et al. 1984).

c) Monoisodisomic: Monoisodisomic carries three doses of loci locating on the isosome. In cotton recombination value of 16.2% between centromere and a marker, M1 was obtained in monotelodisomic for chromosome 4S, while the value of 21.7% in monoisodisomic 4S (Endrizzi and Bray 1980). The significantly higher value in monoisodisomic was attributed to chiasma between two isoarms followed by a chiasma formation between a complete chromosome and one arm of isosome at the proximal region.

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