Genetic and Epigenetic Changes in Somatic Hybrid Introgression Lines between 1 Wheat and

Genetic and Epigenetic Changes in Somatic Hybrid Introgression Lines between 1 Wheat and Tall Wheatgrass 2 Shuwei Liu, Fei Li, Lina Kong, Yang Sun, Lumin Qin, Suiyun Chen, Haifeng 3 Cui, Yinghua Huang and Guangmin Xia 4 The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of 5 Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P. R. China 6 USDA/ARS Plant Science Research Laboratory, 1301 N. Western Rd, Stillwater, OK, 7 74075, USA 8 9 These authors contributed equally to this work. 10 Present Address: Cotton Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 11 Jinan 250100, P. R. China 12 Present Address: Plant Science Institute, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, 13 Kunming, 650091, P. R. China. 14 Corresponding author: School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P. R. 15 China. E-mail: Xiagm@sdu.edu.cn 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Genetics: Early Online, published on February 9, 2015 as 10.1534/genetics.114.174094