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C-banding variation in the Moroccan oat species Avena agadiriana (2n=4x=28)

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The C-banding technique was used to describe the chromosomes of a relatively recently-discovered Moroccan oat species, Avena agadiriana (2n=4x=28). A substantial amount of polymorphism for arm ratios and C-banding patterns was observed among five accessions of this species. However a common set of ten putatively homologous chromosomes was identifiable among the five accessions. The chromosomes of A. Agadiriana do not closely match those of any of the previously described diploid or tetraploid oat species in terms of their arm ratios and C-banding patterns. However, their overall C-banded appearance generally resembles the A/B/D groups of chromosomes of Avena species, rather than the more hetrochromatic C genomes. Implications of these findings in terms of chromosome evolution in the genus Avena are discussed.

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  1. Department of Plant Pathology, Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University, 66506, Manhattan, KS, USA

    E. N. Jellen & B. S. Gill

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Communicated by K. Tsunewaki

Contribution no. 95-490-J of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

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Jellen, E.N., Gill, B.S. C-banding variation in the Moroccan oat species Avena agadiriana (2n=4x=28). Theoret. Appl. Genetics 92, 726–732 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00226095

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