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The inheritance in wheat of crossability with rye

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Ralph Riley  and
Victor Chapman
Ralph Riley
Affiliation:
Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England
Victor Chapman
Affiliation:
Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, England
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1. By the use of intervarietal chromosome substitution lines, the poor crossability with rye (S. cereale, 2n = 14) of the wheat (T. aestivum, 2n = 42) variety Hope was shown to be determined by chromosomes 5A and 5B. The genes Kr1 and Kr2, which are responsbile for poor crossability (Lein, 1943), are probably located on chromosomes 5B and 5A respectively.

2. Crossability is actively inhibited by the dominant alleles, Kr1 and Kr2, of Hope and is apparently not enhanced by the recessive alleles, kr1 and kr2, of the readily crossable variety Chinese Spring.

3. The inhibition of crossability with rye conferred evolutionary and agricultural advantage upon wheat by preventing the production of sterile wheat-rye hybrids which could be regarded as weeds generated from within the crop.

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Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , June 1967 , pp. 259 - 267
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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