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Linkage And Inheritance Studies In Barley (Hordeum), Robert E. Heiner
Linkage And Inheritance Studies In Barley (Hordeum), Robert E. Heiner
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Barley has had wide acceptance not only as a cultivated crop but also as an excellent source of genetic material. Barley was being used in inheritance studies by Tschermak when he rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity. Since then barley has become one of the most widely used plants for genetic studies known today.
More than 100 characters have been investigated indicating the relative ease of classification. There are 7 linkage groups corresponding to the 7 chromosomes in which 2 or more characters have been located as reported by Robertson (1939). But Kramer, Veyl, and Hanson (1954), from translocation experiments, suggest …