title: Construction and uses of new compound B-A-A maize chromosome translocations.
abstract: Maize B-A translocations result from reciprocal interchanges between a supernumerary B chromosome and an arm of an essential A chromosome. Because of the frequent nondisjunction of the B centromere at the second pollen mitosis, B-A translocations have been used to locate genes to chromosome arms and to study the dosage effects of specific A segments. Compound B-A translocations (B-A-A translocations) are created by bringing together a simple B-A translocation with an A-A translocation in which breakpoints in the A-A and B-A translocations are in the same arm. Recombination in the region of shared homology of these A chromosome segments creates a B-A-A translocation. Success in creating and testing for a new B-A-A translocation requires that the B-A translocation be proximal to the A-A translocation and that the A-A translocation be proximal to the tester locus. The breakpoints of most of the A-A translocations have been cytologically defined by earlier investigators. Previous investigators have produced 16 B-A-A translocations and one B-A-A-A translocation, which collectively define 35 A chromosome breakpoints. We have enlarged this group by creating 64 new B-A-A translocations. We present a summary of the total of 81 B-A-A translocations showing their distribution among the chromosome arms and the 163 cytologically defined chromosome segments delimited by them. We also illustrate the method of construction of these B-A-A stocks and their uses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks 58202-9019, USA. bill.sheridan@und.edu
authors.forename: William F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.forename: Donald L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Auger
mesh_terms: D002503:Centromere; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D014178:Translocation, Genetic; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics*