Hybridization

Hybridization

• Purely accidental
  • Wild wheat X goatgrass
    • 14 + 14 chromosomes
  • Produced fertile hybrid “emmer”
    • Diploid (28 Chromosomes)
    • Dispersed by wind
  • Emmer X goatgrass
    • 28 + 14 chromosomes
    • Fertile hybrid “bread wheat”

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