Somatic association in Triticum aestivum.

Abstract

The distances between nonhomologous telocentric chromosomes in squashes of mitotic cells of root tips of wheat conform to a theoretical model based on the distance between points taken at random from a uniform distribution; homologues tended to lie near each other. The 2 telocentrics for opposite arms of the same chromosome are associated to approximately the same degree as homologous telocentrics, suggesting that centromere is at least partly responsible for somatic association.