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New Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) markers for tetraploid oat (Avena magna Murphy et Terrell) provide the first complete oat linkage map and markers linked to domestication genes from hexaploid A. sativa L.
Nutritional benefits of cultivated oat (Avena sativa L., 2n = 6x = 42, AACCDD) are well recognized; however, seed protein levels are modest and resources for genetic improvement are scarce. The wild tetraploid, A...
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Could early gene flow have created similar allozyme-gene frequencies in cultivated and wild barley?
The possible role of early gene flow between wild and cultivated barley in their similar esterase gene frequencies was tested in a simulation study. The hypothetical population consisted of 99.9% wild forms po...
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Giemsa C-banding in Avena insularis Ladizinsky
The Sicilian wild tetraploid oat Avena insularis is a close relative of A. magna and A. murphyi and is more plausible than either of these two species as the immediate tetraploid ancestor of A. sterilis and the o...
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Opportunities for improved adaptation via further domestication.
The concept of improved adaptation via further domestication is based on the premise that wild legumes may contain useful diversity not present in the existing food legumes. It is a diversity which cannot be t...
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Cytogenetic relationships between Avena insularis (2n=28) and both A. strigosa (2n=14) and A. murphyi (2n=28)
The newly discovered tetraploid oat Avena insularis was crossed with the diploid A. strigosa and the tetraploid A. murphyi. Considerably reduced chromosome association at meiosis and a low average number of ch...
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On the Origin of Almond
Almond, Amygdalus communis L., is an ancient crop of south west Asia. Selection of the sweet type marks the beginning of almond domestication. Wild almonds are bitter and eating even a relatively small number ...
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Identification of the lentil's wild genetic stock
The origin of lentil from the taxon Lens culinaris subsp. orientalis has been proved by morphological evidence and breeding experiments. This wild form exhibits variation in many characters and is distributed ...
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A new species of Avena from Sicily, possibly the tetraploid progenitor of hexaploid oats
A new species of oat, Avena insularis, is described. It was collected in southern Sicily where four populations were found on uncultivated clay soil. Morphologically, it is similar to the hexaploid wild oat A....
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Dwarfing genes in the genus Lens Mill.
Dwarfing genes were detected following intra- and interspecific hybridization in Lens. Dwarf phenotypes are controlled by two complementary dominant genes, Df 1 and Df ...
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Chloroplast DNA variation and evolution in the genus Lens Mill
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) restriction site diversity was assessed by 21 enzyme/probe combinations in 30 accessions of six Lens species, including the recently recognized L. lamottei and L. tomentosus. A total of 1...
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Domestication via hybridization of the wild tetraploid oats Avena magna and A. murphyi
The wild tetraploid (2n=28) oat species Avena magna and A. murphyi have been domesticated by having been transferred from the common oat, A sativa (2n=42), the characteristics of non-shedding spikelets glabrous a...
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Characterization of the missing diploid progenitors of the common oat
The genomic formula ACD of the hexaploid oat,Avena saliva, AC for the tetraploid speciesA. magna andA. murphyi, and the hypothesis that the A genome was contributed byA. strigosa group and C genome byA. ventricos...
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Genetical aspects of hybrid embryo abortion in the genus Lens L.
Hybrid embryo abortion is an effective crossing barrier in the genus Lens L. It divides the genus into two crossing groups: the Culinaris and the Nigricans groups; but it is also evolving within the Culinaris gro...
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Inheritance and linkage relationships of morphological and isozyme loci in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Inheritance and linkage relationships of several morphological and isozyme loci are described in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Segregation data obtained from several F2 families confirmed the previously observed...
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Cryptic speciation in Lens culinaris
Three crossability groups have been identified in the wild progenitor of lentil, Lens culinaris ssp. orientalis. The common one which is predominant in this taxon and in the cultigen, the unique one, which at pre...
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Genetic characterization of Lens ervoides from Ethiopia
A single population of the Mediterranean species Lens ervoides was located in Ethiopia and seeds were collected. Based on chromosomal arrangement and isozyme profile the Ethiopian L. ervoides is similar to popula...
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Crossability Relations
The term hybridization is used to describe a wide range of processes involving cross-fertilization. In wide crosses it usually refers to events which may lead to gene flow between populations which are reprodu...
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Genetic analysis and linkage study of seed weight in lentil
The genetics of seed weight was studied in crosses between the cultivated lentil L. culinaris and the wild species L. orientalis and L. ervoides. Seed weight was found to be under polygenic control with additive ...
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Genetic affinity between two chemotypes of clary sage (Salvia sclarea L.)
A new and unique chemotype of clary sage, Salvia sclarea L., was identified recently in wild populations of this species in the northern part of Israel. This chemotype was crossed to a cultivated form of clary sa...
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Tertiary trisomics in lentil
Tertiary trisomics have been selected among derivatives of hybrids between the cultivated lentil and its wild progenitor Lens orientalis, and between the cultivated species and L. ervoides. Hybrids heterozygotes ...
