Evolution of the ultrastructure and polysaccharide composition of flax fibres over time: When history meets science

A Melelli, F Jamme, J Beaugrand, A Bourmaud - Carbohydrate polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Flax fibres have been used by humans for approximately 10,000 years. With time, the
geographic area of production and cultivation has changed, as have the applications of flax …

Diversity of Linum genetic resources in global genebanks: from agro-morphological characterisation to novel genomic technologies – a review

V Kaur, M Singh, DP Wankhede, K Gupta… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Linseed or flaxseed is a well-recognized nutritional food with nutraceutical properties owing
to high omega-3 fatty acid (α-Linolenic acid), dietary fiber, quality protein, and lignan …

Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.)

LM Hall, H Booker, RMP Siloto, AJ Jhala, RJ Weselake - Industrial oil crops, 2016 - Elsevier
Flax is a temperate industrial oilseed crop grown primarily in Canada, China, and Russia.
Flax is a diploid, autogamous species, and breeding follows traditional methods, enhanced …

Integrated consensus genetic and physical maps of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.)

S Cloutier, R Ragupathy, E Miranda… - Theoretical and applied …, 2012 - Springer
Three linkage maps of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) were constructed from populations CDC
Bethune/Macbeth, E1747/Viking and SP2047/UGG5-5 containing between 385 and 469 …

Effect of salinity stress on yield and quality parameters in flax (Linum usitatissimum L.)

S Dubey, A Bhargava, F Fuentes… - Notulae Botanicae …, 2020 - notulaebotanicae.ro
Flax is one of the oldest utilitarian plants that have been grown for fibre as well as an oilseed
crop. The species has been recognized as an excellent source of micronutrients, dietary …

Style polymorphism in Linum (Linaceae): a case of Mediterranean parallel evolution?

J Ruiz‐Martín, R Santos‐Gally, M Escudero… - Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Heterostyly is a sex polymorphism that has challenged evolutionary biologists ever since
Darwin. One of the lineages where heterostyly and related stylar conditions appear more …

Infra-specific genetic and morphological diversity in Linum album (Linaceae)

M Sheidai, S Ziaee, F Farahani, SM Talebi… - Biologia, 2014 - degruyter.com
Abstract The genus Linum L.(Lineacea) has over 15 species, subspecies or ecotypes in Iran.
These species show extensive geographical distribution and form many local populations …

Potential hybridization of flax with weedy and wild relatives: an avenue for movement of engineered genes?

AJ Jhala, LM Hall, JC Hall - Crop science, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is being evaluated as a crop platform for the production of bio‐
industrial and nutraceutical products. An important consideration for the release of any novel …

The toolbox for fiber flax breeding: a pipeline from gene expression to fiber quality

D Galinousky, N Mokshina, T Padvitski… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The goal of any plant breeding program is to improve quality of a target crop. Crop quality is
a comprehensive feature largely determined by biological background. To improve the …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of novel genic SSR markers in Linum usitatissimum (L.) and their transferability across eleven Linum species

BJ Soto-Cerda, HU Saavedra, CN Navarro… - Electronic Journal of …, 2011 - SciELO Chile
Little is known about the evolutionary relationships among Linum species, basically
because of the lack of transferable molecular markers. Currently, expressed sequence tags …