A statistical analysis of speltoid wheat (heights and number of culms).
Institution: | McGill University |
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Department: | Department of Physics. |
Degree: | MS. |
Year: | 1942 |
Keywords: | Physics. |
Record ID: | 1545423 |
Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile129816.pdf |
Note: Original document has very faint text. The genus Triticum and the genus Avena give rise to many aberrent species. These have been extensively studied genetically, cytologically, and cyto-genetically by many different workers. They have also had their overt diagnostic aberrancies statistically analysed. Triticum vulgare gives rise to a mutant which greatly resembles Triticum spelta. The mutant arises in the heterozygous form and is called a speltoid. In a similar manner fatuoid oats arise in Avena sativa. [...]