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Morphology, fertility and cytogenetics of intergeneric hybrid between Roegneria kamoji Ohwi and Dasypyrum villosum (L.) Candargy (Poaceae: Triticeae)

ZHOU Yong-Hong, WU Bi-Hua, FU Ti-Hua, ZHENG You-Liang   

  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:1999-03-10 Published:1999-03-10
  • Contact: ZHOU Yong-Hong

Abstract:

 The intergeneric hybrids between Roegneria kamoji Ohwi and Dasypyrum villo-
sum (L.)Candargy were successfully obtained by means of embryo culture in vitro. Studies
 on morphology, fertility and chromosome pairing behavior in meiosis of the parents and their
 hybrid Fl were carried out in the present work. The results showed that: (1) there were ob-
 vious morphological differences between R. kamoji and D. villosum, and spikes of Fl
 plants were morphologically intermediate between the two parental species; (2) the seed set
 of the cross was 11.63%; the hybrid plant was infertile, which indicated that strong repro-
 ductive isolation existed between the parents and R. kamoji and D. villosum were inde-
 pendent biological species; (3) The somatic chromosome number in root-tips of Fl hybrids
 was 28. Chromosome pairing at MI of PMCs in Fl hybrids was quite low. The meiotic con-
 figuration was 26.72 Ⅰ + 0.62 Ⅱ + 0.02 Ⅲ, which indicated that very low homoeology
 was detected between the St, H, Y genomes of R. kamoji and the V genome of D. villo-
 sum, and the relationship between the parental species was remote.

Key words: Roegneria kamoji, Dasypyrum villosum, Intergeneric hybrid, Meiosis, Genome, Chromosome pairing Relationship