Wheat ( L.) spike characteristics determine the number of grains produced on each spike and constitute key components of grain yield. Understanding of the genetic basis of spike characteristics in wheat, however, is limited. In this study, genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and the iSelect 9K assay were used on a doubled-haploid (DH) soft red winter wheat population that showed a wide range of phen...

Polyploidy, the duplication of a single genome (autopolyploid) or the combination of two or more divergent genomes (allopolyploid), has occurred frequently during the evolutionary history of flowering plants . It is known that the polyploid genome displays dynamic changes in DNA sequences and gene expression patterns, which are caused by “genomic shock” . Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a he...

The expression of 1,613 transposable elements (TEs) represented in the Affymetrix Wheat Genome Chip was examined during cold treatment in crowns of four hexaploid wheat genotypes that vary in tolerance to cold and in flowering time. The TE expression profiles showed a constant level of expression throughout the experiment in three of the genotypes. In winter Norstar, the most cold-hardy of the ...

In five tip sterile lines of hexaploid wheat (Kheri, Mexicani, Pavon-76, Seri-82 and Sonora-64) due to interchange of segments three types of meiotic configuration i.e. ring quadrivalent (oIV), chain quadrivalent (cIV) and trivalent plus univalent (III.I) were found at metaphase I. The observed and expected numbers of meiotic configurations in these translocated lines of wheat were found to fol...

A detailed RFLP map was constructed of the distal end of the short arm of chromosome 1D of Aegilops tauschii, the diploid D-genome donor species of hexaploid wheat. Ae. tauschii was used to overcome some of the limitations commonly associated with molecular studies of wheat such as low levels of DNA polymorphism. Detection of multiple loci by most RFLP probes suggests that gene duplication even...

the genus of aegilops a wild and weedy relative of bread wheats, has wide distribution in middle east and west asia, these areas include major parts of iran. the species in this genus have a great role in hexaploid wheat evolution and they are donor of d and b genome, directly and indirectly. to identify some iranian aegilops accessions, one handred and three accessions from eight species from ...

Two-dimensional paper chromatography was performed on methanol extracts of leaves of hexaploid bread wheat, Triticum aestivum L. em. Thell. cultivar Chinese Spring, and of the available nullisomic-tetrasomic compensating lines, the tetrasomic lines and the ditelocentric lines. The chromatograms had 27 spots identified as flavonoids and six representing phenolic acids. Some of the areas were com...

The alcohol dehydrogenase zymogram phenotypes of 40 wheat strains, each possessing a distinctive chromosomal constitution, were determined. Genes involved in the production of alcohol dehydrogenase were located on the beta arm of chromosome 4A and on chromosomes 4B and 4D. The results support the hypothesis that the active alcohol dehydrogenase isozymes are dimers composed of the six possible c...

A dosage effect of chromosome 5A (formerly IX) of common wheat, Triticum aestivum L. emend Thell. ssp. vulgare, has been well established. With increasing dosage from monosomic to tetrasomic, the phenotype changes from speltoid to normal vulgare type (squarehead) to subcompactoid to compactoid (HUSKINS 1946; SEARS 1952, 1954) (Figure 1 and Table 3) . This is due to the pleiotropic gene Q locate...