Wheat Evolution and Domestication

by Avraham A. Levy and Moshe Feldman

This open access book covers a century of research on wheat genetics and evolution, starting with the discovery in 1918 of the accurate number of chromosomes in wheat. We re-evaluate classical studies that are pillars of the current knowledge considering recent genomic data in the wheat group comprising 31 species from the genera Amblyopyrum, Aegilops, Triticum, and other more distant relatives. For these species, we describe morphology, ecogeographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031301749
• ISBN13: 9783031301742
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 673 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.4" x 11.1"