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Biochemical and molecular characterisation of Glu-1 loci in Argentinean wheat cultivars

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The high molecular weight glutenin subunit (HMW-GS) composition of acollection of 107 Argentinean bread wheat cultivars was analysed bysodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE).Allelic variation at the Glu-1 loci was identified and its frequencycalculated. Eleven alleles were detected, three encoded at the Glu-A1locus, six at the Glu-B1 locus and two at the Glu-D1 locus. Alow frequency of the null allele at the Glu-A1 locus and a highfrequency of subunits 5+10 at the Glu-D1 locus were observed.Reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC)analysis was used to further characterise HMW-GS. Two different types ofBx subunit 8 (named subunits 8 and 8) were detected, the latterhaving shorter elution time. Subunit 8 was not identifiable bySDS-PAGE. According to quantification by RP-HPLC analysis, two groupsof subunit 7 were observed. One group, with a relatively high proportionof subunit 7 (approximately 39% of the total amount of HMW-GS)appeared in cultivars with allele 7+8 at the Glu-B1 locus; asecond group of subunit 7 (around 24% of the total amount ofHMW-GS), was found in alleles 7+8, 7+8 and 7+9. Restrictionfragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) analyses of HMW-GS genes werealso carried out after digestion of genomic DNA with HindIII andTaqI restriction enzymes. The relationship between DNA fragment sizeand glutenin subunits, as estimated by electrophoretic mobility inSDS-PAGE, was also examined. The restriction enzyme TaqIdemonstrated to be a useful tool to detect homozygous plants in selectionprograms against the Glu-A1 null allele.

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    M.C. Gianibelli & O.R. Larroque

  2. Instituto de Recursos Biologicos, CIRN-INTA, Villa Udaondo, 1712, Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    M. Echaide

  3. Departamento de Genetica, ETSIA Agron., Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    J.M. Carrillo

  4. Department of Agronomy and Range Science, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, U.S.A

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Gianibelli, M., Echaide, M., Larroque, O. et al. Biochemical and molecular characterisation of Glu-1 loci in Argentinean wheat cultivars. Euphytica 128, 61–73 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020643702867

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