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
Recommended Citation
Holwerda, B. C.; Jana, S.; Crosby, William L.; and Rogers, J. C., "Large Differences in Genetic Variation of Multigene Families in Barley" (1993). Journal of Heredity, 84, 1, 29-33.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/biologypub/1006
