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The effect of three temperatures on the orientation of the translocation quadrivalent was studied on four different translocation heterozygotes of barley. The alternate orientation decreased while temperature increased, and especially the frequency of discordant (elliptic) orientation increased. The proportion of alternate orientation was extremely low, in these four translocations, at high temperature. The four translocation heterozygotes differed significantly from one another at low and medium temperature. The proportion of configurations with alternate orientation was significantly lower in late MI in comparison with early MI. It is proposed that the change in the proportion of the translocation configuration with different orientations during MI is due to some relationship between the number of active centromeres and the number of the relevant chiasmata which oppose the force exerted by the poles. Accordingly, rings with concordant adjacent orientation will separate earlier than alternate, and elliptic quadrivalents with only two active centromeres will be the last to separate.
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Akavia, N., Ladizinsky, G. The effect of temperature on the orientation of the translocation quadrivalent in barley. Chromosoma 67, 145–150 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00293171
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