Induced chromosome pairing

Bibliographic Details
Title: Induced chromosome pairing
Authors: J Irvine, P McGuire
Source: California Agriculture, Vol 36, Iss 8 (1982)
Publisher Information: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, 1982.
Publication Year: 1982
Collection: LCC:Agriculture
Subject Terms: Agriculture
More Details: Not available – first paragraph follows: Success in hybridizing wild with cultivated species ultimately depends on the ability of the alien chromosomes to pair and recombine with the chromosomes of the crop species at meiosis. In bread wheat, pairing and thus recombination normally occur only between identical or homologous chromosomes and not, unfortunately, between a wheat chromosome and an alien chromosome. However, increasing knowledge of the components of the genetic system controlling pairing has made it possible to manipulate them to achieve pairing between nonhomologous chromosomes. A major advantage of such induced pairing is that it usually occurs between closely related but not homologous chromosomes—termed homoeologues. Recombination of genetic material between homoeologues is likely to result in genetically more balanced chromosomes than if recombination were between unrelated chromosomes.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2160-8091
0008-0845
Relation: https://californiaagriculture.org/article/111066-induced-chromosome-pairing; https://doaj.org/toc/0008-0845; https://doaj.org/toc/2160-8091
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/c3b368d982a84745a31e982b13fb14f5
Accession Number: edsdoj.3b368d982a84745a31e982b13fb14f5
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:21608091
00080845
Published in:California Agriculture
Language:English