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In an attempt to transfer traits of agronomic importance from H. bulbosum into H. vulgare we carried out crosses between four diploid barley cultivars and a tetraploid H. bulbosum. Eleven viable triploid F1 plants were produced by means of embryo rescue techniques. Meiotic pairing between H. vulgare and H. bulbosum chromosomes was evidenced by the formation of trivalents at a mean frequency of 1.3 with a maximum of five per cell. The resulting triploid hybrids were backcrossed to diploid barley, and nine DC1 plants were obtained. Three of the BC1 plants exhibited H. bulbosum DNA or disease resistance. A species specific 611-bp DNA probe, pSc119.2, located in telomeres of the H. bulbosum genome, clearly detected five H. bulbosum DNA fragments of about 2.1, 2.4, 3.4, 4.0 and 4.8 kb in size present in one of the BC1 plants (BC1-5) in BamHI-digésted genomic Southern blots. Plant BC1-5 also contained a heterozygous chromosomal interchange involving chromosomes 3 and 4 as identified by N-banding. One of the two translocated chromosomes had the H. bulbosum sequence in the telomeric region as detected using in situ hybridization with pSc119.2. Two other BC1 plants (BC1-1 and BC1-2) were resistant to the powdery mildew isolates to which the barley cultivars were susceptible. Seventy-nine BC2 plants from plant BC1-2 segregated 32 mildew resistant to 47 susceptible, which fits a ratio of 1∶1, indicating that the transferred resistance was conditioned by a single dominant gene. Reciprocal crosses showed a tendency towards gametoselection that was relative to the resistance. Mildew resistant plant BC1-2 also had a 1-kb H. bulbosum DNA fragment identified with a ten-base random primer using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Forty-three BC1 plants, randomly sampled from the 79 BC1 plants, also segregated 23∶20 for the presence versus absence of this 1-kb H. bulbosum DNA fragment, thereby fitting a 1∶1 ratio and indicating that the PCR product originated from a single locus. The 1-kb DNA fragment and disease resistance were independently inherited as detected by PCR analysis of bulked DNA from 17 resistant and 17 susceptible plants as well as by trait segregation in the 43 individual plants. The progenies produced could serve as an important resistant source in plant breeding. This is the first conclusive report of the stable transfer of disease resistance and DNA from H. bulbosum to H. vulgare.
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Xu, J., Kasha, K.J. Transfer of a dominant gene for powdery mildew resistance and DNA from Hordeum bulbosum into cultivated barley (H. vulgare). Theoret. Appl. Genetics 84, 771–777 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00227383
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