The preferred livelihood assets for meat and nutritious milk in thousands villages of Kurdistan rejoin/Iraq are sheep goats. They generally rely on free roaming rangeland during the growing seasons. In order to maintain their livestock scarcity forages at winter seasons, leaves twigs (Quercus aegilops, Q. infectoria libani) harvested dried as (dry leaf faggots) autumn season use major substitut...

M A N Y characters which would-be desirable in cultivated crops are known to exist in related species and genera. The most striking examples of such characters are the resistances to various diseases. Where hybridization can be achieved between the pertinent genera, attempts have been made to transfer genes for these desired characters into the genome of the cultivated species. Partially for th...

Aegilops tauschii Coss. is the D-genome donor to hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and is the most promising wild species as a genetic resource for wheat breeding. To study the population structure and diversity of 81 Ae. tauschii accessions collected from various regions of its geographical distribution, the genomic representation of these lines were used to develop a diversity array t...

the high molecular weight glutenin subunit (hmw-gs) compositions of 19 diploid wild wheat (t.boeoticum) and 36 diploid wild wheat (a.tauschii) were determined by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (sds-page). all of t. boeoticum were characterized for their hmw-gs, showed 2* in their glu-a1 locus. in the study of aegilops tauschii that were collected from iran and 7 neig...

in this study, 120 aegilops crassa (mmdd genome) accessions from iran were evaluated for high molecular weight proteins. based on sds-page analysis, 17 bands were selected and mass spectrometry was used for protein identification. among 17 bands selected for maldi-tof-tof-ms analyzing, only 4 bands were identified as high molecular weight glutenin subunit similar to aegilops ventricosa and trit...

Drought is a major abiotic stress that is threatening the production and the survival of many crops such as cereals. The response of three Aegilops crassa accessions (C1, C2 and C3) that inhabit areas with different rates of rainfall and durum wheat to controlled drought (with soil moisture of 50% field capacity) was tested in terms of changes in: relative water content, chlorophyll content, ch...

BACKGROUND Synthetic hexaploid wheats are artificially reconstituted hexaploid wheats that possess high genetic variation which could be utilized for the development of new improved wheat varieties. One such group of synthetic wheats is called the Elite-II set of synthetic wheats that are derived from crossing durum wheat with different Aegilops tauschii wheats. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the c...

Sequence tagged site (STS) markers have been developed recently to identify resistance genes in wheat. A number of wild relatives have been used to transfer resistance genes into wheat cultivars. Accessions of wild species of Triticeae: Aegilops longissima (4), Ae. speltoides (6), Ae. tauschii (8), Ae. umbellulata (3), Ae. ventricosa (3), Triticum spelta (2), T. timopheevi (3), T. boeoticum (4)...

To produce a good F1 hybrid variety wheat crop, it is necessary to explore novel cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) lines and their maintainer line. This study aimed to identify cytoplasmic variation in three isonuclear-alloplasmic male sterile lines Aegilops kotschyi (Ae.kots) -90-110, Aegilops ventricosa (Ae.ven) -90-110, and Triticum spelta (T.spelta) -90-110 and their maintainer line, A-90-11...