Experiments designed to characterize the incidence of mitotic chromosome loss in a yeast disomic haploid were performed; The selective methods employed utulize the non-mating property of strains disomic for linkage group III and heterozygous at the mating type locus. The principal findings are: (1) The grequency of spontaneous chromosome loss in the disome is of the order 10- minus 4 per cell; ...

Arachis hypogaea L. (cultivated peanut) is an allotetraploid (2n = 4x = 40) with an AABB genome type. Based on cytogenetic studies it has been assumed that peanut and wild-derived induced AABB allotetraploids have classic allotetraploid genetic behavior with diploid-like disomic recombination only between homologous chromosomes, at the exclusion of recombination between homeologous chromosomes....

The domestication of wheat was instrumental in spawning the civilization of humankind, and it occurred through genetic mutations that gave rise to types with non-fragile rachises, soft glumes, and free-threshing seed. Wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides), the tetraploid AB-genome progenitor of domesticated wheat has genes that confer tenacious glumes (Tg) that underwent genetic mutat...

Meiotic pairing between homoeologous chromosomes in polyploid wheat is inhibited by the Ph1 locus on the long arm of chromosome 5 in the B genome. Aegilops speltoides (genomes SS), the closest relative of the progenitor of the wheat B genome, is polymorphic for genetic suppression of Ph1. Using this polymorphism, two major suppressor loci, Su1-Ph1 and Su2-Ph1, have been mapped in Ae. speltoides...

AIMS To examine the age of onset of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in children with Down's syndrome compared with non-trisomic individuals, and to assess whether differences might be related to disomic homozygosity at the autoimmune polyglandular disease type 1 (APECED) gene locus. METHODS Children with Down's syndrome and IDDM were identified through the Down's syndrome associati...

since the early 1980s (McMullen et al., 1997; Wilcoxson et al., 1988; Windels, 2000). Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium graminearum Management practices such as crop rotation have Schwabe, is a serious disease problem on durum wheat (Triticum been ineffective in limiting the disease. Most researchers turgidum L. var. durum ) in the USA. To date, the resistance to FHB available in h...

Most species of the genus Lophopyrum Löve (Agropyron Geartn.) grow in saline environments and are more tolerant of saline stress than the species of the related genus Triticum L. A 56-chromosome amphiploid from the cross Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring x Lophopyrum elongatum exceeded Chinese Spring in salt tolerance, measured as plant dry-matter production and seed yield in solution cultur...