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Map-based analysis of the tenacious glume gene Tg-B1 of wild emmer and its role in wheat domestication.
Gene - 1 Jun 2014
Faris Justin D, Zhang Zengcui, Chao Shiaoman
Abstract excerpt
The domestication of wheat was instrumental in spawning the civilization of humankind, and it occurred through genetic mutations that gave rise to types with non-fragile rachises, soft glumes, and free-threshing seed. Wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides), the tetraploid AB-genome progenitor of domesticated wheat has genes that confer tenacious glumes (Tg) that underwent genetic mutations to give rise...
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