The virtues of small grain size: Potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats

Increase in grain/seed size recurrently features as a key element in the ‘domestication syndrome’ of plants (cf. Zohary and Hopf 2000; Fuller et al. 2014). In the context of its spread across Eurasia, however, the grain size of one of the world's major crop species underwent a substantial reduc...

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Main Authors: Liu, X, Lister, D, Zhao, Z, Staff, R, Jones, P, Zhou, L, Pokharia, A, Petrie, C, Pathak, A, Lu, H, Matuzeviciute, G, Bates, J, Pilgram, T, Jones, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016