Nice pictures and interesting information. Thanks Gurcharan ji! Regards
Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
