When gametocidal agents (gametocidal genes or chromosomes) derived from four
Aegilops species,
Ae. speltoides, Ae. sharonensis, Ae. longissima and
Ae. triuncialis, are present in a hetero- or hemizygous state in wheat, they cause a syndrome characterized by male and female sterility, seed shriveling, chromosome breakage and mutation. However, the characteristics of the syndrome differ among the agents. Gametocidal gene,
Gc1, originally from
Ae, speltoides, induces sterility, seed shriveling and mutation in the F
1 generation. In this case, seed shriveling is accentuated by low temperature, about 5 to 11 hrs after the pollination. Gametocidal chromosomes, 4S
sh of
Ae.
sharonesis and 4S
1 of
Ae. longissima, cause high rates of mutation and chromosome aberration in addition to sterility, although they do not induce seed shriveling. Chromosome 3C of
Ae. triuncialis induces only sterility in the F
1, though chromosome breakage and mutation are induced in the B
11generation in the presence of its suppressor,
Igc1 (from a common wheat cultivar Norin 26). The syndromes caused in wheat by these gametocidal agents are compared to hybrid dysgenesis observed in
Drosophila melanogaster.
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