1977 Volume 52 Issue 4 Pages 301-307
Synthesized amphiploid strains derived from an intermediate punctata-eichingeri strain (2x, CC, W1525)×O. punctata (2x, W1514) and O. punctata (2x, W1515)×O. collina (2x, CC, W0006) were crossed with strains having the BBCC genomes. The number of bivalent per cell at MI of the tetraploid F1 hybrids (KB-lines) ranged from 20 to 24 with a mean of 22.3 or 23.3. This suggests that the diploid punctata strains served as the donor of the B genome for the species having the B and C genomes.