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Wheat Information Service
Number 84: 33-39 (1997)
Research article

C-banding analysis of D-genome chromosome in Chinese landrace of Triticum tauschii (Coss.) Schmalh. and Triticum aestivum L cv. Chinese Spring

Deng-Cai Liu, Chi Yen and Jun-Liang Yang

Triticeae Research Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Dujiangyan City, 611830, Sichuan, China


Summary

The Giemsa C-banding analysis of 11 accessions of T. tauschii from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and Xinjiang province in China and common wheat Chinese Spring was made. The clear C-band polymorphic variation among the T. tauschii accessions from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the accessions from Xinjiang was observed, which is consistent with evidence of RFLPs and esterase analysis in Chinese T. tauschii. Modification in the C-banding pattern was noticed on some D-genome chromosomes of Chinese Spring compared with T. tauschii. The C-banding polymorphic variation of secondary constriction region in chromosome arm 5DS of T. tauschii was found.

Key words: Chinese Triticum tauschii, Chinese Spring, C-banding polymorphism


Introduction

The C-banding technique is a good method for cytological differentiation of D-genome chromosomes of T. tauschii and T. aestivum (Gill et al. 1991; Friebe et al. 1992; Hohmann and Lagudah 1993). A large amount of C-banding polymorphism among different T. tauschii accessions from the Middle East has been found, and several chromosomes of them are involed in the modification of the C-banding pattern in comparison with that of D-genome chromosomes of Chinese Spring. In this paper, C-banding analysis of D-genome chromosome in Chinese T. tauschii and common wheat Chinese Spring was made.


Materials and methods

The materials analyzed consist of 11 different T. tauschii accessions from the middle reaches of the Yellow River (including Henan and Shannxi provinces) and Xinjiang province as well as commmon wheat Chinese Spring, and their origins are given in Table 1. The C-banding karyotypes were made using the technique described by Ren and Zhang (1995). Chromosome identification and designation of D-genome chromosomes to homoeologous group follows the generalized C-banding karyotype of T. aestivum (Gill et al. 1991) and T. tauschii (Friebe et al. 1992). The position of C-bands in each chromosome arm was located relative to C-bands present in hexaploid wheat. The consistent or inconsistent C-bands of each accession were derived from 5 to 8 different C-banded chromosomes of each accession.

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