Identification of Hordeum bulbosum chromosomes in H. vulgare – H. bulbosum substitutions using isozyme markers

Abstract

Hordeum bulbosum chromosomes 1Hb, 4Hb, 6Hb, and 7Hb were identified in five monosomic and one double monosomic H. vulgare – H. bulbosum substitution using 11 isozyme systems. In all substitutions analyzed, diagnostic isozyme bands for H. bulbosum chromosomes were found in the same isozyme systems and zones having diagnostic value for the homoeologous H. vulgare chromosomes. However, bands that are normally diagnostic for the 3Hv region appeared in one 6Hv substitution and in one selfed progeny from another 6Hv substitution.Key words: Hordeum vulgare, Hordeum bulbosum, alien chromosome substitutions, isozymes, chromosome identification, homoeologous relationships.