Date of Award:
5-1964
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Plants, Soils, and Climate
Department name when degree awarded
Crop Breeding
Committee Chair(s)
Douglas R. Dewey (Committee Co-Chair), Wade G. Dewey (Committee Co-Chair)
Committee
Douglas R. Dewey
Committee
Wade G. Dewey
Committee
Orson S. Cannon
Committee
Rollo W. Woodward
Abstract
Fairway crested wheatgrass, which is identified taxonomically as Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn. (45), A. cristatiforme (38), or A. pectiniforme Roem. and Schult (22), is an economically important range grass belonging to the "crested wheatgrass complex" (24, 38). The crested wheatgrass complex includes diploid, 2n = 14, tetraploid, 2n = 28, and hexaploid, 2n = 42, forms (1, 11, 22). The variety Fairway and Fairway-like derivatives are the only known diploid members of the species complex (24, 38). Meiotic chromosome behavior of Fairway diploids appears to be typical of other diploid species; however, the number of plants examined cytologically has been relatively small.
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Recommended Citation
Tai, William, "Morphology, Fertility, and Cytology of Diploid and Colchicine-Induced Tetraploid Fairway Crested Wheatgrass" (1964). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 2989.
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