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A Festuca arundinacea (2n = 6 × = 42) plant with three PGI/2 homoeoalleles marking three homoeologous chromosomes was crossed with a Lolium multiflorum plant (2n = 4x =28) with a different PGI/2 phenotype to give a pentaploid hybrid (2n = 5 × = 35) with five chromosomes each marked by a different PGI/2 allele. This hybrid plant was backcrossed twice with diploid L. multiflorum (2n = 2 × = 14) with a different PGI/2 phenotype. Numbers of interspecific recombinants involving chromosomes marked by PGI/2 were then determined in both backcross generations. In the BC1, recombinants involving only one PGI/2 allele were found but in the BC2, all three homoeologous F. arundinacea chromosomes carrying the PGI/2 locus recombined with Lolium with one in greater frequency and the others in equal but lower frequency. The evidence supports claims made for F. pratensis (2n = 2 × = 14) and F. arundinacea van glaucescens (2n = 4 × =28) being progenitors for F. arundinacea.
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Humphreys, M.W., Ghesquière, M. (1994). Assessing success in gene transfer between Lolium multiflorum and Festuca arundinacea . In: Rognli, O.A., Solberg, E., Schjelderup, I. (eds) Breeding Fodder Crops for Marginal Conditions. Developments in Plant Breeding, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0966-6_43
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