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An Investigation Of Certain Linkage Relationships In Barley, Parichehr Ahmadian Tehrani May 1966

An Investigation Of Certain Linkage Relationships In Barley, Parichehr Ahmadian Tehrani

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Barley is one of the world's most important food and feed crops. It is adapted to a wide range of environments. According to Harlan and Martini (1936) barley is grown from north of the Artic Circle to the sands of the Sahara, and from the slopes of Mt. Everest to the lower delta of the Nile.

Considerable progress has been made in its improvement through plant breeding. Barley is one of the best cultivated crop plants for use in genetic studies. It is a diploid plant from the family Gramineae with seven pairs of chromosomes. The cultivated species are interfertile …