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The effect of telomere heterochromatin on metaphase I association of chromosome pair 1R of rye was analyzed in normal diploid plants of rye (2n=14) and in wheat-rye derivatives with the chromosome constitution (0–7)A(0–7)BRR (2n=20, 21 and 22). The C-banding pattern of 1R was variable between plants. In diploid rye the presence or absence of telomeric heterochromatin in 1R does not influence its meiotic pairing. However, in wheat-rye derivatives the presence of telomeric heterochromatin decreases chiasma frequency in the 1R bivalent. This cannot be attributed to interference of heterochromatin with chiasma terminalization. This effect of heterochromatin is most pronounced in heterozygous condition. In plants heterozygous for telomeric C-bands the reduction of pairing is stronger in the short arm than in the long arm of the 1R bivalent.
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Naranjo, T., Lacadena, J.R. Interaction between wheat chromosomes and rye telomeric heterochromatin on meiotic pairing of chromosome pair 1R of rye in wheat-rye derivatives. Chromosoma 81, 249–261 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285951
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