hexaploid

• “Wheat is what is called a hexaploid, meaning it contains six duplicated copies of its genome.”

  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

• “Today 90% of the wheat grown in the world is hexaploid bread wheat.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “The hexaploid species, A. colei ms, is widespread in the semiarid zone of northern Australia.”

  Chapter 48

• “They are still sterile, but when treated with colchicine, as described above, these plantlets produce partially fertile hexaploid triticales (AABBRR).”

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• “Aegilops squarrosa (DD), it gave rise to the hexaploid wheats AABBDD.”

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• “Almost all work worldwide centers on hexaploid triticales.”

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• “So far, octoploids have been most valuable for improving hexaploid triticales.”

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• “Today, almost half of the spring hexaploid varieties released worldwide are derived from it either directly or indirectly.”

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• “Again chromosome doubling occurred, resulting in hexaploid wheat.”

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• “At CIMMYT in the 1970s, the crop's agronomic breakthroughs came from crosses between Armadillo (a hexaploid) and some newly created octoploid triticales, of which the Maya group were among the first.”

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