Aegilops
Sign in to saveAegilops is a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family, Poaceae. They are known generally as goatgrasses. Some species are known as invasive weeds in parts of North America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
山羊草属（学名：Aegilops）是禾本科下的一个属，为一年生草本植物。该属共有约30种，分布于欧洲和亚洲。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 599
- With media
- 401
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- CAS, NY, US
- Recorded in
- United States, Turkey
Research
1,688 papers- Potential of Aegilops sp. for Improvement of Grain Processing and Nutritional Quality in Wheat (Triticum aestivum).Frontiers in plant science · 2019
- Gametocidal genes of Aegilops: segregation distorters in wheat-Aegilops wide hybridization.Genome · 2017
- Aegilops sharonensis genome-assisted identification of stem rust resistance gene Sr62.Nature communications · 2022
- Aegilops tauschii genome assembly Aet v5.0 features greater sequence contiguity and improved annotation.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021
- Advances in the Mining of Disease Resistance Genes from Aegilops tauschii and the Utilization in Wheat.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Description
- Origin of wheat
- Ecology
- Prehistoric wild food source
- Etymology
- Species
- See also
- References
- External links
Aegilops is a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family, Poaceae. They are known generally as goatgrasses. Some species are known as invasive weeds in parts of North America.
==Description== These are annual plants, sometimes from rhizomes. The taller species reach about 80 centimeters in maximum height. The flat leaves are linear to narrowly lance-shaped, and are up to 15 centimeters long and one wide. The inflorescence is a spike with 2 to 12 solitary spikelets each up to 1.2 centimeters long. Some spikelets have one or three awns, and some have none.
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