“…Thinopyrum bessarabicum hybrids (King et al, 1993). Nowadays, this cytomolecular tool has become the most extended method for MI pairing analyses of interspecific hybrids not only from wheat (e.g., Benavente et al, 1998;Jauhar et al, 2004) but from many other crop species as distinct as tomato (Ji and Chetelat, 2003), onion (Stevenson et al, 1998), barley (Zhang et al, 1999), maize (Gonzalez et al, 2006), dahlia (Gatt et al, 2000), lily (Lim et al, 2001), rice (Xiong et al, 2006) and several brassicas (Wang et al, 2004;Wei et al, 2006), among others ( Figs. 4, 8).…”