from Jens Jensen, 9/96 Poster presented at the V International Oat Conference & VII International Barley Genetics Symposium Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1996 By Jens Jensen Risø National Laboratory Environmental Science and Technology Department P.O. Box 49 DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Title: Linkage map of barley chromosome 5 Introduction: Traditional markers such as isozymes, morphological mutant- and disease resistance genes have been mapped before the use of molecular markers. A map of chromo- some 5 is constructed which contains this infor- mation as well as information from the use of molecular markers by the method described by Jensen (Jensen and Jørgensen, Hereditas 80: 5-16,1975 and Jensen, Barley Genetics IV: 927-939,1987). Results: The estimated chromosome 5 map is 147 cM long and contains 102 evenly distributed loci. Discussion: The estimated map distances were compared to those obtained in previous studies using Mapmaker (Graner et al. BGN 23:53-59,1993) and GMendel (Kasha et al. BGN 23:65-69,1993); in both cases the map dis- tances were longer. In general there was good correspondence between the order of loci. Linkage data from the same molecular maps have previously been combined using JoinMap (Qi et al., Genome 39:379-394,1996), which resulted in similar distances. This is to be expected as JoinMap is based on the Jensen procedure. Langridge et al. (Molecular Breeding 1:389-395,1995) also using JoinMap got slightly larger distances, but the material was only in part the same. The Jensen procedure gives standard deviations on the estimated map distances and assesses individual linkages; those which deviate more than a chosen level are omitted from the final analysis.