Large Differences in Genetic Variation of Multigene Families in Barley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1993

Publication Title

Journal of Heredity

Volume

84

Issue

1

First Page

29

Last Page

33

Abstract

A preliminary survey of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) and wild barley (H. vulgare ssp. spontaneum) showed large differences in the levels of variation between a number of multigene families in accessions that originated in the primary center of diversity around the eastern Mediterranean. The high pl α-amylase, alcohol dehydrogenase, and hordein C gene families showed high levels of variation, but, in contrast, the low pl α-amylase and waxy gene families were more conserved. The more conserved low pl α-amylase and waxy genes may be due to small sample size, but other factors such as selection may be responsible for these differences.

DOI

10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a111273

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