text: These data confirm previous results obtained in A. cepa (Ruffini Castiglione et al. 1995), V. faba (Frediani et al. 1996), Z. biebersteiniana (Cremonini et al. 2003), H. gracilis (Ruffini Castiglione et al. 2008a) and barley reconstructed karyotypes (Ruffini Castiglione et al. 2008b) by means of immunocytochemical approach.