Genetic characterization of storage proteins in a set of F1-derived haploid lines in bread wheat.

Wheat storage proteins were evaluated by SDS-PAGE in a population of 206 doubled haploid (DH) lines, produced from a cross between bread wheat cvs Chinese Spring (CS) and Courtot (CT). The analysis of gliadins and high- and low-molecular-weight glutenins gave rise to 11 protein markers between parental varieties. Among these, one each was encoded at the Glu-A1, Gli-A1, Gli-A2, Gli-A5, Glu-B3, Gli-B1 and Gli-D1 loci and four were encoded at the Glu-D3 locus. Only the Gli-A2 marker showed a distorted segregation. A distance of 1.94 cM was evaluated between the Gli-A1 locus and the recently found Gli-A5 locus. Among the DH lines, only nine exhibited an unexpected pattern. The chromosome allocation was determined for almost all the LMW-GS and gliadin bands of CS using nullitetrasomic and ditelosomic lines. Two C LMW-GS were found to be coded by 6DS. Similarly, substitution lines into CT allowed the allelic determination of numerous LMW-GS and gliadin bands. A correspondence between gliadin markers separated in SDS-PAGE and in A-PAGE revealed that the common allele Gli-Aa between CS and CT determined in A-PAGE was able to be separated into two alleles when SDS-PAGE was used.