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Outcrossing rates of barley landraces from Syria
Author(s) -
Parzies H. K.,
Spoor W.,
Ennos R. A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
plant breeding
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1439-0523
pISSN - 0179-9541
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2000.00532.x
Subject(s) - outcrossing , biology , agronomy , hordeum vulgare , population , genetic diversity , botany , natural population growth , genetic variation , poaceae , genetics , demography , gene , pollen , sociology
Diversity levels in populations of barley landraces may be influenced by varying levels of natural outcrossing caused by environmental conditions. Outcrossing was studied in 10 accessions of the barley landrace Arabi Aswad from different environments in Syria. Electrophoretic variation at two codominant isoenzymes ( Est1 and Est2 ) in six seeds of 50 families per population were analysed and multilocus outcrossing rates calculated. Results were correlated with interpolated environmental conditions. Outcrossing was, on average, 1.7% and not significantly different from the outcrossing rate of wild barley. A significant increase of outcrossing was observed with increasing inter‐annual variation in rainfall and decreasing minimum temperatures of the coldest month.