Wheat Evolution, Domestication, and Improvement

Wheat Science and Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-30

  Gustafson, Perry ^a   Raskina, Olga ^b   Ma, Xuefeng ^c   Nevo, Eviatar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c Ceres Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Concluding remarks on the process of wheat evolution; Genome evolution and modification; Mechanisms for chromosome evolution Chromosomal rearrangements; Origin of Triticum turgidum; Origin, domestication, and evolution of wheat; Repatterning of rDNA arrays in the wheat genome; Repetitive DNA and mobile elements as perpetual generators of diversity and evolution; The potential of wild emmer in wheat improvement; Wheat domestication and human civilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885385574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813818832.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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