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Chiasma variation and control in pollen mother cells and embryo-sac mother cells of rye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

E. D. G. Davies  and
G. H. Jones
E. D. G. Davies
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
G. H. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Genetics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
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Mean chiasma frequencies and the amounts of between-bivalent chiasma variation were computed for pollen mother cells (p.m.c.) and embryo-sac mother cells (e.m.c.) of five distinct inbred rye lines. Despite the considerable differences for both these metrics shown by the different lines, very little variation was seen between p.m.c. and e.m.c. belonging to the same lines. It is concluded that chiasma formation in p.m.c. and e.m.c. of rye is governed and regulated by a single controlling system of genes and that variation in this genetic system is expressed identically in the two sexes.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1974 , pp. 185 - 190
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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