Chromosomal passports provide new insights into diffusion of emmer wheat.
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SUBMITTER: Badaeva ED
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4449015 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Chromosomal passports provide new insights into diffusion of emmer wheat.
Badaeva Ekaterina D ED Keilwagen Jens J Knüpffer Helmut H Waßermann Louise L Dedkova Olga S OS Mitrofanova Olga P OP Kovaleva Olga N ON Liapunova Olga A OA Pukhalskiy Vitaly A VA Özkan Hakan H Graner Andreas A Willcox George G Kilian Benjamin B
PloS one 20150529 5
Emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccon schrank (syn. T. dicoccum (schrank) schÜbl.), is one of the earliest domesticated crops, harboring a wide range of genetic diversity and agronomically valuable traits. The crop, however, is currently largely neglected. We provide a wealth of karyotypic information from a comprehensive collection of emmer wheat and related taxa. In addition to C-banding polymorphisms, we identified 43 variants of chromosomal rearrangements in T. dicoccon; among them 26 (60.4%) were ...[more]
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