Mouaki S., Said M., Alvarez JB., Cabrera A.
EUPHYTICA 178: 63-69, 2011

Keywords: Barley, Fluorescence in situ hybridization, Physical location, Structural changes
Abstract: Hordeum chilense Roem. et Schult. is a diploid wild South American barley that contains genes of interest for cereal breeding, many of them located on chromosome 1Hch. In the current study, two H. chilense-wheat addition lines with deletions in the 1Hch chromosome were used for sub-arm localization of five prolamin (glutenin and gliadin) loci and 33 EST-SSR marker loci on chromosome 1Hch. The two sets of markers were distributed across five sub-arm chromosome regions. Three glutenin loci (Glu-H ch 2, Glu-H ch 3, Glu-H ch 4) together with the gliadin locus Gli-H ch 1 were located on the distal 20% of the 1HchS arm, whereas the glutenin locus Glu-H ch 1 was on the proximal 88% region of 1HchL. Among 33 EST-SSR marker loci, 7 (21.2%) were on the 1HchS arm and, of them, 3 (9.1%) were on the distal 20% end and 4 (12.1%) on the proximal 80% region. The 26 loci (78.8%) on 1HchL were distributed across three different regions: 18 (78.8%) in the proximal 88%, 3 (9.1%) in the distal 12% and 5 (15.2%) in a region less than 12% from the distal end. The deletions in the 1Hch chromosome added to the common wheat background were thus shown to be useful for determining the sub-arm location of EST-SSR and prolamin loci. This could facilitate the identification of molecular markers linked to genes of agronomic interest and the isolation of such genes for use in common wheat improvement.
DOI: IEB authors: Mahmoud Ali Said ...