Threshing efficiency as an incentive for rapid domestication of emmer wheat

Annals of Botany

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 829-837

  Tzarfati, Raanan ^a,b   Saranga, Yehoshua ^b   Barak, Vered ^b   Gopher, Avi ^c   Korol, Abraham B ^a   Abbo, Shahal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

conscious selection; emmer wheat; labour trap; post harvest processing; protracted domestication; spike brittleness (br); T. turgidum ssp. durum; threshability; Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; EMERGENCE; GENOTYPE; POLYPLOIDY; WHEAT; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84883219161     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct148     Document Type: Article

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