Evolution of Wild Emmer and Wheat Improvement
Subtitle: Population Genetics, Genetic Resources, and Genome Organization of Wheat's Progenitor, Triticum dicoccoides
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9783540417507
Subjects: Agricultural science; Cereal crops; Plant ecology; Life Sciences - General; Emmer wheat; Field Crop Breeding; Grain Crops; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science/Mathematics; Evolution; Agriculture - Agronomy; Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; cereals; genetic mapping; genetic resources; Agriculture - General; Crop improvement
First sentence: Wheats are the universal cereals of Old World agriculture (Harían 1992; Zohary and Hopf 1988, 1993) and the world's foremost crop plant (Feldman et al. 1995), followed by rice and corn.