INCOMPLETE CONCURRENCE OF EVIDENCE FROM PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS AND GENOME ANALYSIS REGARDING THE ORIGIN OF AEGILOPS OVATA
Electrophoresis of ethanol extracted, water soluble, seed proteins of many different biotypes of 3 diploid species of Aegilops and of the tetraploid A. ovata L. suggest that A. ovata may be descended from an allotetraploid of A. umbellulata Zhuk. and A. squarrosa L. This does not agree with the few published results of genome analysis, which suggest that A. umbellulata and A. comosa Sibth. &Smith are the ancestors of A. ovata. Hypotheses advanced to explain this incomplete concurrence of evidence from these two biosystematic methods include an insufficiency of samples, genome divergence, translocations followed by introgressive hybridization and genetic control of meitoic chromosome pairing.