Ctenium aromaticum Panz. (Aegilops aromatica Walter, Monocera aromatica Elliott, Chloris monostachya Michaux,) is a grass restricted to wet areas of the coastal forest of the S.E. US. Knowledge of the pungent taste and numbing caused by chewing this grass dates from the 18th century or earlier (Walter, 1788; Michaux, 1805; Elliott, 1821), but use of this grass for allaying toothache was oversha...

The study presents an updated overview of the 14 non-endemic threatened crop wild relatives (CWR) in Italy: Aegilops biuncialis, Ae. uniaristata, ventricosa, Asparagus pastorianus, Beta macrocarpa, Brassica insularis, B. montana, Crambe hispanica subsp. hispanica, C. tataria tataria, Ipomoea sagittata, Lathyrus amphicarpos, L. palustris, Vicia cusnae and V. serinica. Geographical distribution, ...

one hundred and twenty iranian accessions of aegilops crassa with origin from different geographical areas of iran, were evaluated for variation in high molecular weight glutenin subunit (hmw-gs) composition. the results showed different banding patterns between hexa (6x) and tetra-ploid (4x) as well as within different ploidy accessions. eleven allelic variants were observed in glu- dcr1 locus...