A standard tester set of reciprocal translocations in S. cereale and several primary trisomics have been used to identify the chromosomes involved in the natural translocation complexes between S. cereale and S. montanum, and S. cereale and S. vaviloviz.Chromosomes I, III and V, in our classification system, were found to be involved in the translocations between cultivated rye, S. cereale, and both the wild species S. montanum and S. vavilovii.