ABSTRACT
The cereal crops are essential components to the human and animal food supply. Solutions to many of the problems challenging cereal production will require identifi cation of gene responsible for particular traits. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L. Em. Thell.) is one of the most important food crops
in the world and understanding its genetics and genome organization using molecular markers is of great value for genetic and plant breeding purposes. It is an allohexaploid (2n = 6x = 42) with the three genomes A, B and D and has extremely large genome 16 × 109 bp/IC (Bennett and Smith, 1976) with more than 80% repetitive DNA.
