Understanding the origin of cultivated wheats would further their genetic improvement. The
hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L., AABBDD) is believed to have originated …

Reticulate evolution through the interchanging of genetic components across organisms can
impact significantly on the fitness and adaptation of species. Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum …

The origin of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum; AABBDD) has been a subject of controversy
and of intense debate in the scientific community over the last few decades. In 2015, three …

In spite of more than 200 years of botanical exploration of the Orient, resulting in many
herbaria and germplasm collections, sequence data, and transferred alleles, our knowledge …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …

Wheat is the world's largest and most important food crop for direct human consumption;
therefore, continued wheat improvement is paramount for feeding an ever-increasing human …

The origin and evolution of the wheat group (the genera Aegilops, Amblyopyrum, and
Triticum) in the wild and under cultivation is reviewed. The diploid species diverged from a …

Abstract Wheatgrass Thinopyrum intermedium (Host), or Agropyron intermedium (Host)(2 n=
42; genome formula, EEE st E st StSt) is one of the most valuable sources of highly effective …

Five diploid Aegilops species of the Sitopsis section: Ae. speltoides, Ae. longissima, Ae.
sharonensis, Ae. searsii, and Ae. bicornis, two tetraploid species Ae. peregrina (= Ae …

Wild crop relatives have been playing enormously important roles both in the depiction of
plant genomes and the genetic improvement of their cultivated counterparts. They have …