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In the early generations of a breeding programme to incorporate the successful Norin 10 semidwarfing genes into adapted tall or standard lines, the bread and durum wheat breeder must be able to recognise and discard those lines that are not homozygous for the dwarfing gene. A method which exploits the gibberellin insensitive reaction of lines carrying the genes combined with a ‘single seed descent’ technique is described in which most unwanted genotypes may be removed as F2 seedlings.
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Gale, M.D., Gregory, R.S. A rapid method for early generation selection of dwarf genotypes in wheat. Euphytica 26, 733–738 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00021699
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