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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kushnir, U.
• Halloran, G.M.

Titel

ATTEMPTS TO INCORPORATE HIGH GRAIN PROTEIN CONTENT FROM TETRAPLOID WHEAT (TRITICUM TUNGIDUM IN HEXAPLOID WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM VULGARE)

Ist Teil von

• Cereal research communications, 1982-01, Vol.10 (1/2), p.61-64

Ort / Verlag

Cereal Research Institute

Erscheinungsjahr

1982

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Studies were made of protein content variation in the progeny of crosses of two hexaploid wheat cultivars, "Warrigal" and "Barkaee", each with three different wheat pentaploids ("Chinese Spring" x Triticum turgidum dicoccoides). In the pentaploids, "Chinese Spring" was (i) normal or (ii) possessed the homoeologous pairing promoter ph2 or (iii) the promoter ph1b. Segregation for protein content in a 42-chromosome F3 population from the normal pentaploid, and in a 42-chromosome population of the normal pentaploid x "Warrigal", revealed quantitative inheritance and partial dominance of low protein content. However good scope appeared to exist for selecting for increased grain protein content over the level of the hexaploid parents in both crosses.