Sentences with word «hexaploid»

The idea that induced change to aplant's genetic code is a phenomenon of the DNA age is also untrue: modern hexaploid wheat possesses six times as many chromosomes as its prehistoric ancestor, thanks to tireless selection and breeding over ten thousand years of human farming.

Dwarf wheat has forty - two chromosomes (known as hexaploid), unlike einkorn wheat, possibly the oldest form of cultivated wheat, which has a simple genetic structure of fourteen chromosomes (known as diploid).

As part of the international effort to sequence the 17 — billion — base - pair hexaploid bread wheat genome (2n = 6x = 42 chromosomes), we constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-- based integrated physical map of the largest chromosome, 3B, that alone is 995 megabases.

This so - called hexaploid arrangement arose in two steps.

Introduction of the D genome in hexaploid and tetraploid wheats is possibly the reason.

Our modern day wheat (also known as a hexaploid) shares the same ancestry of Spelt, but the hulls are easily removed from the grain kernel.

Emmer (a tetraploid grass) has four chromosomes, compared to Einkorn's two, and Spelt (a hexaploid wheat variant) has six chromosomes.

Modern wheat varieties are classified as «hexaploid,» having six sets of chromosomes, due to a long history of hybridization.

It is huge, many times the size of the human genome, and hexaploid, containing six copies each of seven chromosomes.

The offspring, the hexaploid species P. interjectum, is morphologically and...

This data was then used to further the understanding of the hexaploid ancestral genome and the temporal relationship between it and the diploid ancestor.

The plant genes responsible for contributing these peptides in wheat gluten are located on the third set of chromosomes that the hexaploid variants inherited from their wild parent.