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AUSTRALIAN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 381-385Publisher
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/SB10014
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- Allan Herbarium (CHR) New Zealand
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30901052, 30870154]
- Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of Sichuan Province, China [08ZQ026-036]
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Elymus tenuis (Buch.) A. Love et Connor is a perennial octoploid (2n = 56) wheatgrass endemic to New Zealand. To investigate its genomic constitution, four artificial interspecific hybrids between E. tenuis and E. enysii (2n = 4x = 28, HW), and E. solandri (2n = 6x = 42, StYW) and E. multiflorus (2n = 6x = 42, StYW) were studied cytologically. Meioses in pollen mother cells (PMCs) of the hybrids showed relatively high chromosome pairing, with an average of 13.50 in E. enysii x E. tenuis, 20.22 in E. solandri x E. tenuis, 19.62 in E. multiflorus x E. tenuis, and 20.00 in E. tenuis x E. multiflorus bivalents per cell, respectively. The results indicate that E. tenuis is an allo-octoploid species, with the new and unique genomic constitution StYHW. An autochthonous origin is proposed for it.
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