The somatic chromosomes of common wheat, Triticum aestivum L. (2n = 6x = 42), and those of two of its diploid progenitors and T. speltoides, have been individually identified by a Giemsa staining technique. In wheat, telocentric chromosomes were used to aid the recognition of individual chromosomes, and an ideogram has been constructed depicting the C-band positions. There is no similarity in t...

The orthologue of Arabidopsis ERECTA gene (ER) in wheat, TaER, is considered to be a promising candidate gene for the genetic improvement of water use efficiency (WUE) and drought tolerance in breeding programs. In this study, we isolated two distinct homologues (TaER1 and TaER2) of TaER genes in common wheat through in silico screening and PCR-based homologous cloning. Sequence analysis reveal...

We studied the evaporation-induced pattern formation in droplets of common wheat kernel leakages prepared out of ancient and modern wheat cultivars as a possible tool for wheat quality analysis. The experiments showed that the substances which passed into the water during the soaking of the kernels created crystalline structures with different degrees of complexity while the droplets were evapo...