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A Crop-Wise Comparison of Domestic Gene Pool with Wild Relatives on Ecogeographic Diversity

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Bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, is a hexaploid comprising an “A” genome from the wild diploid Triticum urartu (Au genome), a “B” genome most likely from Aegilops speltoides, and a “D” genome from Triticum tauschii.

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Nair, K.P. (2019). A Crop-Wise Comparison of Domestic Gene Pool with Wild Relatives on Ecogeographic Diversity. In: Combating Global Warming . Springer Climate. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23037-1_6

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