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Inheritance of Awns in a Cross Between Hard Federation and Kota Wheats

During the past few years there have been numerous studies made of various characters in wheat. Some characters which were thought at first to be simple in inheritance have since been found to be rather complex.
The data in the following pages are the results of an investigation made to study the inheritance of awns in a cross between Hard Federation and Kota varieties of wheat.
Until the last few years awn inheritance in wheat has been regarded as extremely simple, that is, as being dependent on a single factor difference. The awns of the F1 plants have nearly always been intermediate in length between the awns of the two parents with the F2 ratios 3:1 or 1:2:1, awnlessness usually being regarded as dominant. Recently, however, it has become apparent that the inheritance of awns is much more complex than the original data indicated. Several workers have found two independent factors and one has found two factors segregating in such a fashion as strongly to suggest linkage between these two factors.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-4966
Date01 May 1928
CreatorsJudd, B. Ira
PublisherDigitalCommons@USU
Source SetsUtah State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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