“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
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The results of an international expedition to the Republic of Armenia in the summer of 2013 are presented. An important result of the field work is the discovery of several wheat habitats Triticum araraticum Jakubz. and T. boeoticum Boiss.
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Original Russian Text © N.P. Goncharov, A.Sh. Melikyan, M.G. Harutyunyan, M.Ts. Hovhannisyan, L.V. Hovhannisyan, R.R. Sadoyan, O.A. Lyapunova, 2014, published in Vavilovskii Zhurnal Genetiki i Selektsii, 2014, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 387–399.
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Goncharov, N.P., Melikyan, A.S., Harutyunyan, M.G. et al. The Caucasian centre of formation of wild di- and tetraploid wheat: The Armenia 2013 expedition. Russ J Genet Appl Res 4, 595–605 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079059714060082
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