Coordinator's report: Inversions
B. O. Bengtsson
Department of Genetics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 29, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden

There is no new information about stocks of barley inversions.

Since my report in BGN 18 three new articles have been published on the use of inversions for genetic investigations:

Gecheff, K. I. 1989. Multiple reconstruction of barley karyotype resulting in complete cytological marking of the chromosome complement. Theor. Appl. Genet. 78: 683-688.

Pickering, R. A. 1991. Comparison of crossover frequencies in barley (Hordeum vulgare) and H. vulgare x H. bulbosum hybrids using a paracentric inversion. Genome 34: 666-673.

Säll, T., Flink, J., and Bengtsson, B. O. 1990. Genetic control of recombination in barley. I. Variation in recombination frequency measured with inversion heterozygotes. Hereditas 112: 157-170.