AbstractsPhysics

A statistical analysis of speltoid wheat (heights and number of culms).

by Maurice. Hecht




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Physics.
Degree: MS.
Year: 1942
Keywords: Physics.
Record ID: 1545423
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile129816.pdf


Abstract

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. [...]