Wheat domestication: Key to agricultural revolutions past and future

Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 439-464

  Faris, Justin D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aegilops; Brittle rachis; Domestication; Durum; Einkorn; Emmer; Evolution; Fertile crescent; Q gene; Tenacious glume; Triticum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903449305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7572-5_18     Document Type: Chapter

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