Abstract
Recent studies have shown that speciation through allopolyploidy, i.e., inter-specific or inter-generic hybridization followed by chromosome doubling, is accompanied by a variety of rapid cardinal genetic and epigenetic changes. This paper reviews our studies on the effect of allopolyploidization on several low-copy, non-coding sequences that exist in all the diploid species of the tribe Triticeae, including the progenitors of polyploid wheat, but in polyploid wheat they occur in only one genome, either in one homologous pair (chromosome-specific sequences) or in several pairs of the same genome (genome-specific sequences). Rapid elimination of these sequences from one genome is a general phenomenon in newly synthesized allopolyploids. Elimination was a nonrandom, reproducible event whose direction was determined by the genomic combination of the amphiploid. It was not affected by the genotype of the parental plants, by their cytoplasm, or by the ploidy level, and it did not result from intergenomic recom...
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