Interlocked bivalents in reconstructed metaphase I cells of bread wheat

1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92
Author(s):  
J.S. Heslop-Harrison ◽  
M.D. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Bread Wheat ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Light Microscope ◽  
Serial Sections ◽  
Ring Bivalents ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
I Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

Complete reconstructions of all the bivalents were made from electron micrographs of serial sections through six pollen mother cells at metaphase I of meiosis in Triticum aestivum (hexaploid bread wheat). At least two of these metaphases contained interlocked pairs of bivalents. In one, two ring bivalents were interlocked, while in another a rod bivalent ran through the centre of a ring bivalent. Two other groups of bivalents were too closely appressed to allow separation into individual bivalents and may have contained interlocks. Meiosis in other anthers of the same plants examined by light microscopy was considered normal. The frequency of interlocking found was much higher than reported from light-microscope spreads. Not all interlocks in metaphase I cells need adversely affect meiosis, but knowledge of their regularity and form may facilitate understanding the processes of chromosome pairing.

Genome constitution of the Australian hexaploid grass Elymus scabrus (Poaceae: Triticeae)

Genome ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Torabinejad ◽  
R. J. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Interspecific Hybrids ◽  
Intergeneric Hybrid ◽  
Meiotic Pairing ◽  
Genome Constitution ◽  
Psathyrostachys Juncea ◽  
Hybrid Plants ◽  
Thinopyrum Bessarabicum ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

Eight intergeneric hybrid plants were obtained between Elymus scabrus (2n = 6x = 42, SSYY??) and Australopyrum pectinatum ssp. retrofractum (2n = 2x = 14, WW). The hybrids were vegetatively vigorous but reproductively sterile. Examination of pollen mother cells at metaphase I revealed an average of 16.63 I, 5.29 II, 0.19 III, and 0.05 IV per cell for the eight hybrids. The average chiasma frequency of 6.77 per cell in the above hybrids strongly supports the presence of a W genome from A. pectinatum ssp. retrofractum in E. scabrus. Meiotic pairing data of some other interspecific hybrids suggest the existence of the SY genomes in E. scabrus. Therefore, the genome constitution of E. scabrus should be written as SSYYWW. Two other hybrid plants resulted from Elymus yezoensis (2n = 4x = 28, SSYY) crosses with A. pectinatum ssp. pectinatum (2n = 2x = 14, WW). Both were weak and sterile. An average of 0.45 bivalents per cell were observed at metaphase I. This clearly indicates a lack of pairing between W genome of Australopyrum and S or Y genomes of E. yezoensis. In addition, six hybrid plants of E. scabrus with Psathyrostachys juncea (2n = 2x = 14, NN) and one with Thinopyrum bessarabicum (2n = 2x = 14, JJ) were also obtained. The average bivalents per cell formed in both combinations were 2.84 and 0.70, respectively. The results of the latter two combinations showed that there is no N or J genome in E. scabrus.Key words: wide hybridization, chromosome pairing, genome analysis, Australopyrum, Elymus.

The three-dimensional arrangement of chromosomes at meiotic metaphase I in normal and interchange heterozygotes of Briza humilis

1990 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-570
Author(s):  
JANET M. MOSS ◽  
BRIAN G. MURRAY
Keyword(s):  
Mother Cell ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Meiotic Metaphase ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Normal Plant ◽  
Serial Sections ◽  
Pollen Mother Cells ◽  
Sector Analysis ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

Pollen mother cells at metaphase I have been reconstructed from serial sections in normal and interchange heterozygotes of Briza humilis. The pollen mother cells have an irregular shape with a prominent projection from the tangential face into the anther loculus. The seven bivalents of the normal plant are usually arranged with one bivalent in a central position surrounded by a ring of the remaining six or as a ring of all seven bivalents. The central:peripheral distribution of quadrivalents is different in two different interchange plants; in a sector analysis, where cells are divided into four quarters relative to the tangential face of the pollen mother cell, the two plants also show differences in quadrivalent distribution, indicating that individual chromosomes occupy different positions in the cell. The relevance of these results to the positioning of quadrivalents in lateral squashes of meiotic metaphase I are discussed.

Spontaneous structural rearrangements in Solanum phureja Juz. et Buk. 2. Meiotic behaviour and identification of interchange chromosomes using primary trisomics

Genome ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
M. Wagenvoort
Keyword(s):  
Pollen Mother Cell ◽  
Mother Cell ◽  
Solanum Phureja ◽  
Chromosome Identification ◽  
Structural Rearrangements ◽  
Primary Trisomics ◽  
Interchange Heterozygote ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
I Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

Meiosis was studied in two diploid (2n = 2x = 24) siblings of Solanum phureja Juz. et Buk. and in 11 disomic and 2 trisomic descendants. The diploid siblings carry the same heterozygous interchange and either one or two inversions. The frequency of quadrivalents at diakinesis/metaphase I in these clones was 0.56 and 0.62 per pollen mother cell. In two plants from the first inbred generation (I1) this frequency was about the same but in some other I1 plants and a full sib the frequency was substantially lower, varying from 0.00 to 0.16. Most quadrivalents, 78–83%, were rings. A variety of quadrivalent configurations at diakinesis and metaphase I was observed, giving rise to balanced and unbalanced gametes. The absence of ring quadrivalents in trisomic descendants of one of the siblings implied that tertiary trisomics or primaries being homozygous for the interchange were present in the I1 generation. Regular chromosome distribution (12–12) at anaphase I occurred in 46.5 and 73.2% of the pollen mother cells studied in the two original clones. Irregularities, such as 11–13 distribution, lagging chromosomes, and a bridge and fragment, were detected on average in 2.7, 3.3, and 32.5%, respectively, of the anaphase I cells analysed. In hybrids from crosses between 6 primary trisomics as females with the interchange heterozygote, the involvement in the interchange of chromosomes 3 and 12 was clearly demonstrated.Key words: Solanum phureja, interchange heterozygote, chromosome identification, interchange trisomic, meiosis.

Metaphase I pairing of deficient chromosomes and genetic mapping of deficiency breakpoints in common wheat

Genome ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Curtis ◽  
A. J. Lukaszewski ◽  
M. Chrzastek
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Genetic Mapping ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Homologous Chromosomes ◽  
Transmission Rates ◽  
Chromosome 5B ◽  
Pairing Initiation ◽  
Metaphase I

Metaphase I pairing of deficient chromosomes was analyzed in a set of 'Chinese Spring' (CS) wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell.) plants with varying lengths of deficiencies in the long arm of chromosome 4A (6, 8, 11, 17, 23, 34, 36, 39, and 50% missing), the long arm of chromosome 5B (49% missing), and the long arm of chromosome 2B (33% missing). Pairing in homologous chromosomes between deficient and complete arms was greatly reduced even by small differences in arm length. In deficiency homozygotes and in an isochromosome derived from a deficient 4AL arm, pairing of the two deficient arms was high and approached that of two complete arms. In plants where deficient and complete arms competed for pairing partners, pairing was exclusively between arms of the same length. These results suggest that in wheat, pairing initiation sites are distributed throughout at least the distal halves of the arms and that the alignment of telomeres may be critical for pairing success. Genetic mapping of the deficiency breakpoints was confounded by misdivision of unpaired chromosomes and abnormal transmission rates. Genetic distances between centromeres and breakpoints appeared to be proportional to metaphase I pairing frequencies.Key words: bread wheat, deficiency, chromosome pairing competition, mapping, telomere, pairing initiation.

METAPHASE I PAIRING FREQUENCIES OF INDIVIDUAL AGROPYRON ELONGATUM CHROMOSOME ARMS WITH TRITICUM CHROMOSOMES

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dvořák
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Chromosome Complement ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Diploid Hybrid ◽  
Agropyron Elongatum ◽  
D Genome ◽  
Telocentric Chromosomes ◽  
Metaphase I

Ten telocentric chromosomes of diploid Agropyron elongatum (Host.) P.B. (2n = 14) were added to the chromosome complement of Triticum aestivum L. emend. Thell. The ditelosomic additions were crossed with Triticum speltoides (Tausch) Gren. ex Richter, and in the tetraploid hybrids the pairing frequencies of the telosomes were determined, expressed as percent of PMC's in which a telosome paired at metaphase I. All Agropyron telosomes paired with Triticum chromosomes. The pairing frequencies ranged from 4.4% to 41.2% of the PMC's, it is concluded that none of the ten Agropyron chromosome arms has a homologous partner among the four Triticum genomes involved. The pairing frequencies did not correlate with the lengths of the telosomes. Pairing of the Agropyron telosomes in these tetraploid hybrids approximated the chromosome pairing that occurred in a diploid hybrid T. tauschii (Coss.) Schmal. (the donor of the D genome of T. aestivum) × A. elongatum.

Chromosome pairing in triploid and tetraploid hybrids in Elytrigia (Triticeae; Poaceae)

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick E. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Genome Analysis ◽  
Triploid Hybrid ◽  
Pollen Mother Cells ◽  
Tetraploid Hybrid ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

Mean chromosome pairing of 5.14I + 1.28II (rod) + 3.86II (ring) + 1.47III + 0.11IV (open) + 0.11V was observed in pollen mother cells at metaphase I in the triploid hybrid Elytrigia scirpea (K. Presl) Holub, 2n = 4x = 28 × E. bessarabica (Savul. et Rayss) Dubrovik, 2n = 4x = 14. Mean chromosome pairing of 3.71I + 2.29II (rod) + 1.82II (ring) + 2.64III + 0.29IV (open) was observed in the triploid hybrid E. curvifolia (Lange) Holub, 2n = 4x = 28 × E. bessarabica. Mean chromosome pairing of 3.00I + 0.93II (rod) + 1.57II (ring) + 1.36III + 1.79IV (open) + 1.I4IV (closed) + 0.79V was observed in the tetraploid hybrid E. junceiformis Löve et Löve, 2n = 4x = 28 × E. curvifolia. The first hybrid provides the first evidence by genome analysis that E. bessarabica possesses a genome (designated Eb) which is closely related to the genomes of E. scirpea (ES and ESC) and hence to the E genome of E. elongata (Host) Nevski, 2n = 2x = 14. The second and third hybrids provide the first evidence that the two genomes of E. curvifolia (designated EC and ECU) are related to the Eb genome of E. bessarabica and thus to the E genome of E. elongata.Key words: Elytrigia, homoeology, Triticum, phylogeny, triploid, tetraploid.

Chromosome pairing at five ploidy levels in Elymus trachycaulus

Genome ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taing Aung ◽  
P. D. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Dry Matter Yield ◽  
Ploidy Levels ◽  
Elymus Trachycaulus ◽  
Ring Bivalents ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Agropyron Trachycaulum ◽  
Metaphase I

An autoallooctaploid (2n = 56) form of Elymus trachycaulus (Link) Gould ex Shinners (previously Agropyron trachycaulum (Link) Malte ex H. F. Lewis) was induced by treating allotetraploid shoots with 0.2% colchicine. Successive backcrossing to tetraploid pollen parents was successful and yielded five hexaploid (2n = 42), one pentaploid (2n = 35), and three hyperploid (2n = 31, 32, 33) plants. Metaphase I of the tetraploids was normal and 14 II chromosomes were observed, almost all of which were ring bivalents. Chromosome pairing in one octaploid, four hexploids, and one pentaploid were 4.38 IV + 0.65 III + 17.84 II + 0.85 I, 13.16 III + 0.84 II + 0.84 I, and 5.82 III + 8.18 II + 1.18 I, respectively. Efficiency of chromsome pairing (chiasmata per chromsome) was highest in tetraploids (1.29), lowest in hexaploids (0.75), and intermediate in both octaploid (0.95) and pentaploid (0.93) plants. The octaploid produced longer and broader leaves than the tetraploid, although the total dry matter produced was 14.3% lower. Total dry matter yield of the hexaploid was on an average 30.04% higher than the tetraploid and the leaves were significantly larger. The hexaploid plants were taller than both the tetraploid and the octaploid plants. Metaphase I pairing in hyperploid 1 (2n = 33) was 4.34 III + 9.66 II + 0.66 I, hyperploid 2 (2n = 32) was 2.98 III 11.03 II + 1.00 I; hyperploid 3 (2n = 30 + 1 t) was 1.97 III + 12.05 II + 0.66 I + 0.33 t. The pattern of chromosome pairing in these hyperploids suggest that they are a quintupal trisomic, a quadrupal trisomic, and a triple trisomic respectively. Backcrossing these hyperploids to euploid pollen parents was successful. Backosses and their progeny should result in a series of primary trisomiclines and some monosomic plants, which would be useful for gene mapping. Key words: octaploid, hexaploid (double triploid), pentaploid, tetraploid, hyperploid, trisomic monosomic, Agropyron.

scholarly journals Meiotic Behavior and RAPD Segregation in a Tetraploid Hybrid (Vaccinium darrowi × V. corymbosum) Suggests Genomic Divergence in Blueberry

HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 808D-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholi Vorsa ◽  
Richard Novy
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Backcross Progeny ◽  
Tetraploid Hybrid ◽  
Ring Bivalents ◽  
Genome Homology ◽  
Pairing Model ◽  
Vaccinium Darrowi ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
Wild Blueberry ◽  
Interspecific Recombination

Vaccinium darrowi (D) is a wild blueberry species with low chilling requirements for budbreak, and heat and drought tolerance. Breeding efforts to incorporate these desirable traits into cultivated blueberry (V. corymbosum) (C) would be facilitated with a better understanding of the genomic homology between the two species. An interspecific tetraploid hybrid (CCDD, 2n=4x=48) was used to evaluate genome homology and interspecific recombination. Pollen mother cells examined at diakinesis and early metaphase I exhibited an average of 4.6 chain bivalents, 11.4 ring bivalents, 1.0 chain quadrivalent, and 3.0 ring quadrivalents. This data most closely fits a chromosome pairing model in which there is a greater pairing affinity between homologues than homoeologues. An analysis of the inheritance of 14 RAPD markers unique to V. darrowi in 72 backcross progeny of the V. darrowi–corymbosum hybrid also supported the pairing model: Seven of the 14 markers deviated significantly from tetrasomic inheritance ratios, expected if chromosome pairing was totally random. On the basis of the cytogenetic and RAPD analyses, the genomes of V. darrowi and V. corymbosum are divergent from one another, with preferential pairing within genomes. This outcome suggests there may be difficulty in breaking undesirable linkages when introgressing desirable traits from V. darrowi to V. corymbosum.

Cytology of intergeneric hybrids between Psathyrostachys and Elymus with Agropyron (Poaceae: Triticeae)

Genome ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Jensen ◽  
Ira W. Bickford
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Number ◽  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Intergeneric Hybrids ◽  
Agropyron Cristatum ◽  
Stainable Pollen ◽  
Meiotic Analysis ◽  
C Value ◽  
Elymus Species ◽  
I Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

This paper describes the cytogenetics and fertility of intergeneric hybrids of Psathyrostachys stoloniformis × Agropyron cristatum and two Elymus species, E. dentatus ssp. ugamicus and E. grandiglumis × A. cristatum. Bivalent frequencies of metaphase I cells in the F1 hybrid P. stoloniformis (NN) × Agropyron cristatum (PP) ranged from 0 to 4 per cell, with an average of 0.87 bivalent per cell and a c value of 0.07. The hybrid E. dentatus ssp. ugamicus (SSYY) × A. cristatum (PP) averaged 3.07 bivalents per cell and ranged from 0 to 7 with a c-value of 0.27. Bivalents were predominantly end to end associations. Meiotic analysis in E. grandiglumis (SSYYPP) × A. cristatum (PP) revealed an average of 6.84 bivalents per metaphase I cell with a c value of 0.73. This hybrid had a chromosome number of 2n = 30 rather than the expected 2n = 28. All hybrids had less than 1% stainable pollen and set no seed under open-pollination.Key words: chromosome pairing, meiosis.

scholarly journals Homoeologous chromosome pairing at metaphase I of meiosis in Hordeum vulgare L. × H. bulbosum L. triploid hybrids (HvHbHb)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
G. I. Pendinen ◽  
M. Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Pairing ◽  
Parental Species ◽  
Homoeologous Pairing ◽  
Hybrid Plants ◽  
Homoeologous Chromosome Pairing ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Cultivated Barley ◽  
Gish And Fish ◽  
Mother Cells ◽  
Metaphase I

Background. One of the ways to use the genetic potential of bulbous barley, which is characterized by a number of valuable traits, is interspecific hybridization. In crosses of H. vulgare (2x) × H. bulbosum (2x) and H. vulgare (4x) × H. bulbosum (4x) with a genome ratio of 1Hv: 1Hb in a hybrid embryo, elimination of bulbous barley chromosomes is observed in many cases, and the intensity of the process and the result of the crossing depend on the genotypes of the parental forms. This limits the possibility of including a significant variety of parental forms in crosses. Сrossing of diploid forms of H. vulgare with tetraploid accessions of H. bulbosum (4x) results in the formation of triploid hybrids (HvHbHb) with stable chromosomal composition in pollen mother cells (PMCs) at metaphase I (MI) of meiosis. These triploid hybrids can serve as a basis for obtaining series of introgressive lines of cultivated barley. One of the tasks of this type of work is to estimate the involvement of various chromosomes and their arms in homoeologous associations. The aim of this work was to study the possibility of homoeologous pairing of chromosomes of parental species at MI of meiosis in triploid hybrids using GISH and FISH with chromosome-specific markers, as well as to register the participation of individual arms of the cultivated barley chromosomes in homoeologous associations with the chromosomes of bulbous barley in triploid hybrids (HvHbHb).Materials and methods. Seven triploid hybrids of H. vulgare × H.bulbosum (HvHbHb) obtained in four combinations of crosses with the participation of three diploid cultivars of cultivated barley and two tetraploid accession of bulbous barley were used in this study. The features of homoeologous pairing of chromosomes at MI were studied using the method of fluorescent in situ hybridization (GISH and FISH) with chromosome-specific markers.Results All the studied hybrid plants are characterized by a stable chromosomal composition in PMCs at the MI stage of meiosis. Meiotic configurations formed by homoeologous chromosomes of the parental species, ranging from 0.87 to 1.40 on average per cell, were identified in all the studied plants. Among them, vbb trivalents prevailed. Analysis of chromosome pairing at MI in triploid hybrids revealed the participation of all chromosome arms of H. vulgare in homoeologous Hv-Hb associations, except for the short arm of chromosome 1H. In all the studied triploid hybrids, there is a tendency for a higher frequency of involvement of the long arms of chromosomes in the formation of homoeologous associations; this feature is most clearly manifested in case of chromosome 5H.Conclusions Intergenomic associations with the participation of all arms of H. vulgare chromosomes, except for the short arm of chromosome 1H, were revealed at MI in H. vulgare × H. bulbosum triploid hybrids (HvHbHb). Chromosome 5H, as well as any other cultivated barley chromosome, is characterized by a higher involvement of its long arm in homoeologous associations Hv-Hb, as compared to the short arm.

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