Genetic evidence for differential selection of grain and embryo weight during wheat evolution under domestication

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5703-5711

  Golan, Guy ^a   Oksenberg, Adi ^a   Peleg, Zvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Early vigour; Embryo; Embryo endosperm ratio; Endosperm; Grain size; Tetraploid wheat; Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides; Wheat domestication

Indexed keywords

CROP; EVOLUTION; FOOD GRAIN; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT CHROMOSOME; WHEAT;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EDIBLE GRAIN; PLANT BREEDING; TRITICUM;

EID: 84942247275     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv249     Document Type: Article

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