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GrainGenes Reference Report: GEN-43-661

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GEN-43-661
Title
Analysis of relationships between Aegilops tauschii and the D genome of wheat utilizing microsatellites
Journal
Genome
Year
2000
Volume
43
Pages
661-668
Author
Lelley T
Stachel M
Grausgruber H
Vollmann J
Type
Article
Language
English
Abstract
Sixty Aegilops tauschii accessions and 60 European hexaploid wheat varieties were analyzed with 14 wheat microsatellite (WMS) primer sets to (i) study the phylogeny of Ae. tauschii, (ii) search for a specific genotype of Ae. tauschii most closely related to the D genome of hexaploid wheat, and (iii) narrow down the presumed birthplace of the latter. An average of 6.5 and 4.0 alleles per locus was detected in Ae. tauschii and in wheat, respectively. The highest genetic diversity of Ae. tauschii was found in Transcaucasia and southeast of the Caspian Sea. Distribution of the 87 alleles (without null alleles) found in Aegilops did not allow differentiation of the species into the two subspecies strangulata and tauschii. Excluding null alleles, 41 alleles occurred parallel in wheat and in Aegilops. Data obtained in this study supports the view of the D genome of hexaploid wheat being a composite of several sources but does not support subsp. strangulata as the possible major source of the D genome. The highest number of region-specific alleles (three) in Ae. tauschii occurring also in the D genome of wheat, and therefore most indicative for its evolution was found in present-day Georgia, where subsp. strangulata is not endemic.
Keyword
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aegilops tauschii ssp. strangulata
aegilops tauschii ssp. tauschii
agronomy
center of origin
d genome
endemism
evolution and adaptation
genetic distance
genetic diversity
macrosatellites
microsatellites
molecular genetics
simple sequence repeat
ssr
triticum aestivum

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