Evolution of polyploid triticum wheats under cultivation: The role of domestication, natural hybridization and allopolyploid speciation in their diversification

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 750-764

  Matsuoka, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aegilops; Hybrid swarms; Interploidy introgression; Non reductional meiosis; Triticum; Unreduced gamete formation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; POLYPLOIDY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; POLYPLOIDY; TRITICUM;

AEGILOPS; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM DICOCCON;

EID: 79956129888     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr018     Document Type: Review

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