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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 102-110.DOI: 10.11686/cyxb2019441

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Detection of chromosome ploidy level of wild Bromus inermis in Xinjiang Province

SONG Jia-xing, TANG Feng, GU Li-li, ZHANG Shu-zhen, WANG Yu-xiang, ZHANG Yan-hui, ZHANG Bo*   

  1. College of Grassland and Environment Science, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China
  • Received:2019-10-14 Revised:2019-12-11 Online:2020-04-20 Published:2020-04-20
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Abstract: There are abundant Bromus inermis germplasm resources in Xinjiang Province, China. In order to select breeding materials with compatible ploidy levels, 18 accessions of B. inermis were collected from different localities. The chromosome number was microscopically determined as 28, using acetic acid magenta staining of root tip samples in a wild B. inermis accession (BL-01) from Qitai. As the basic chromosome number of B. inermis is 7, BL-01 was determined to be tetraploid (2n=4x=28). In order to quickly identify the ploidy level of other populations of B. inermis, flow cytometry was employed, and the peak value of relative nuclear DNA content in the leaves of BL-01 was used as reference. The G1, S and G2 phases and variation coefficients of the 18 accessions were used to calculate the cell cycle values of each. It was found that there were 12 tetraploid and 6 octaploid accessions (one of the Octaploids being ‘Wusu No.1’) among the 18 accessions tested.

Key words: Bromus inermi, ploidy, flow cytometry