Interesting information. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote:
> Many thanks Gurcharan ji, for this very useful information and for showing > the plant. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Our common wheat plant Triticum aestivum has a complicated history of >> origin. In the first step diploid Triticum urartu (till recently considered >> under T. monococcum) hybridized with possibly Aegilops speltoides and >> subsequent duplication of chromosomes to yield tetraploid wild emer wheat >> Triticum dicoccoides. Latter hybridized again with diploid Aegilops >> tauschii, another duplication of chromosomes to yield hexaploid Triticum >> aestivum that fills the bellies of people all over the world. I was >> fortunate to click this immediate progenitor of wheat growing commonly in >> Dachhigam forest. >> >> *Aegilops tauschii* Coss., Notes pl. crit. 69. 1850 ("1849") >> syn: *Triticum tauschii* (Coss.) Schmalh.; *Aegilops squarrosa* auct. >> (non L.) >> >> Common names: Rough spike hard grass, Tausch's goat grass >> >> Tufted annual grass usually less than 40 cm tall, erect or ascending; >> leaves up to 15 cm long, 3-5 mm broad, sparsely hairy; spike terminal, >> compact, up to 12 cm long with usually 7-10 spikelets; glumes 4-6 mm long, >> leathery with truncate or slightly toothed apex, enclosing 3-5 florets; >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> > -- Dr Satish Phadke
