AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF CHROMOSOME BEHAVIOR IN A WHEAT HAPLOID

Abstract

Bivalents, univalents, end-to-end and side-by-side associations, also chromosome distributions to the poles were associatively recorded for each of approximately 2000 meta-anaphase cells of a haploid Triticum aestivum L. It was demonstrated that the distribution of the univalents to the polar groups was not random. An inverse relationship between side-by-side association and bivalent frequencies was also demonstrated, and this formed the first in a series of analytical steps which led to a description of chromosome movement in the haploid. The validity of certain assumptions concerning chromosome behavior was tested using the χ2 method; for others, confirmatory observations were made in monosomic cells.