Breeding behaviour of monosomies of two hexaploid wheats over 20 years

Abstract

Nearly 40 years back, all the 21 monosomic lines of variety Chinese Spring were kindly made available by E.R. Sears [1]. Since then these aneuploid lines have been used for transferring monosomic series in cv Pb. C591, developing substitution lines of cv. Pb. C591 in the genetic background of cv Chinese Spring, locating genes on specific chromosome and chromosome arms and transferring desirable genes from Secale cereale to hexaploid wheat using aneuploid line for chromosome 5B [2-9].