hexaploid
Americanadjective
noun
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Jan Dvok, Katrien Devos, Steven Salzberg and colleagues report a reference genome for Aegilops tauschii, the diploid progenitor of the D genome of hexaploid wheat.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
McFadden, E. S. & Sears, E. R. The origin of Triticum spelta and its free-threshing hexaploid relatives.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
Dvorak, J., Luo, M. C., Yang, Z. L. & Zhang, H. -B. The structure of the Aegilops tauschii genepool and the evolution of hexaploid wheat.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
Today, farmers plant both tetraploid 28-chromosome durum wheat and hexaploid 42-chromosome bread wheat.
From Scientific American ● May 19, 2013
Durum wheat makes more toothsome pasta, while the gluten-y hexaploid flour can form protein networks that stretch into loftier, lighter bread.
From Scientific American ● May 19, 2013
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