Identification of the lentil's wild genetic stock

G. Ladizinsky*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

56 Scopus citations

Abstract

The origin of lentil from the taxon Lens culinaris subsp. orientalis has been proved by morphological evidence and breeding experiments. This wild form exhibits variation in many characters and is distributed over a vast area from the Middle-East to central Asia. Characters that are polymorphic in the wild progenitor but monomorphic in the cultigen can be utilized for better identification of the genetic stock which gave rise to the domesticated lentil. Three characters of that kind have been identified in lentil: chromosomal architecture, crossability potential and restriction pattern of chloroplast DNA. Nearly all accessions of the cultivated lentil tested to these three characters have been found monomorphic, but considerable polymorphism exists in the wild accessions. Three subsp. orientalis accessions have been shown to share the above characters with the cultigen and hence can be regarded as members of the genetic stock from which lentil was domesticated. These three accessions originated from eastern Turkey and northern Syria.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-118
Number of pages4
JournalGenetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

Keywords

  • Chromosomal rearrangements
  • cpDNA
  • Crop plant origin
  • Crossability
  • Lens orientalis

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Identification of the lentil's wild genetic stock'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this