The origin of six-rowed 'wild' barley from the western Himalaya [Tibet]
1982
Murphy, P.J. | Witcombe, J.R. (University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd (UK). School of Plant Biology) | Shewry, P.R. | Miflin, B.J.
Plants were grown from seed of two-rowed wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum, and six-rowed brittle-rachised barley, H. agriocrithon, collected in Ladakh, north-western India. Whereas the H. spontaneum remained true to type, segregation for morphological characters was observed in progeny rows grown from heads of H. agriocrithon plants. The H. agriocrithon heads also showed segregation for a biochemical character, the polypeptide pattern of the endosperm storage protein fraction (hordein). The H. agriocrithon seed therefore originated from natural hybridization between cultivated H. vulgare and weedy H. spontaneum. Crosses of H. vulgare and H. spontaneum gave progeny which resembled H. agriocrithon and showed similar hordein polypeptide segregation patterns. The results indicate that six-rowed brittle-rachised barleys from the Himalayas have a similar origin to forms found in the Middle East, and that H. agriocrithon does not play a direct role in the evolution of barley.
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