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THE cellular mechanisms through which homologues recognise each other before meiosis are unresolved. The problem is compounded in a polyploid species like Triticum aestivum which contains three diploid sets of genetically similar chromosomes1. At meiosis, pairing normally takes place only between the fully homologous partners of a set, so that in spite of their close genetic similarity, homoeologues do not synapse. The absence of homoeologous pairing depends principally upon the presence of chromosome 5B (ref. 2) and probably derives from the operation of the Ph locus which is distally located on the long arm of that chromosome3,4.
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BENNETT, M., STERN, H. & WOODWARD, M. Chromatin attachment to nuclear membrane of wheat pollen mother cells. Nature 252, 395–396 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252395a0
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