Domestication of emmer wheat and evolution of free-threshing tetraploid wheat

Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 207-221

  Feldman, Moshe ^a   Kislev, Mordechai E ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Free threshing wheat; Pre pottery neolithic; Spike non brittleness; Ssp. durum; Tetraploid wheat; Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides; Wheat domestication; Wheat evolution; Wild emmer

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; NEOLITHIC; POLYPLOIDY; WHEAT;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM DICOCCON; TRITICUM TURGIDUM;

EID: 58049203030     PISSN: 07929978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJPS.55.3-4.207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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