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Barnyardgrass, hexaploid Echinochloa crus‐galli, is considered to arise from the hybridization between tetraploid Echinochloa oryzicola and an unknown diploid species. The genetic relationship between E. crus‐galli and E. oryzicola was examined to investigate the position of E. oryzicola in the evolutionary process of E. crus‐galli, based on the nuclear DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and the chloroplast cpDNA trnT‐L, trnL intron, and trnL‐F regions. New World E. crus‐galli was clearly separated from Eurasian E. crus‐galli and showed a close relationship to the American taxa, Echinochloa crus‐pavonis and Echinochloa walteri, in both the ITS and chloroplast DNA. The nrDNA ITS sequences indicated no differentiation between the Eurasian E. crus‐galli and E. oryzicola, in contrast to their clear divergence in the cpDNA sequence. The present results suggest that E. oryzicola is the male donor of E. crus‐galli.
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