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The origin of spelt and free-threshing hexaploid wheat.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Dvorak Jan, Deal Karin R, Luo Ming-Cheng, You Frank M, von Borstel Keith, Dehghani Hamid
Abstract excerpt
It is widely believed that hexaploid wheat originated via hybridization of hulled tetraploid emmer with Aegilops tauschii (genomes DD) and that the nascent hexaploid was spelt, from which free-threshing wheat evolved by mutations. To reassess the role of spelt in the evolution of Triticum aestivum, 4 disomic substitution lines of Ae. tauschii chromosome 2D in Chinese Spring wheat were developed and one of them...
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