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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Elsevier
2016
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