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Pre‐harvest germination in male‐sterile wheats
Author(s) -
Done A.A.,
Whittingtion W. J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1978.tb05980.x
Subject(s) - biology , germination , sprouting , cytoplasmic male sterility , agronomy , horticulture , pollinator , botany , pollination , sterility , pollen
SUMMARY F 1 hybrid grain borne on cytoplasmic male‐sterile (A line) parents germinated (sprouted) before maturity but grain set on male‐fertile analogues (B lines) of the A lines did not. Sprouting may involve varied with the pollinator and with the A lines although their ranking order varied between experiments. Unsprouted grain harvested from A lines subsequently germinated more rapidly than that from the B lines.