AbstractHexaploid tritordeum is the amphiploid derived from the cross between Hordeum chilense and durum wheat. The storage proteins synthesized in the Hch genome influence the gluten strength of this amphiploid. The D‐prolamins of H. chilense have been analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate‐polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with and without urea. A new locus named Glu‐Hch3 has been detected. The effects of allelic variation at this locus on gluten strength, as measured the sodium dodecyl sulphate sedimentation test, were determined using seeds of 92 lines from a cross of two hexaploid tritordeum lines. Two allelic variants have been detected for this locus, which have shown different effects on gluten strength.