AUTHOR=Pourkheirandish Mohammad , Dai Fei , Sakuma Shun , Kanamori Hiroyuki , Distelfeld Assaf , Willcox George , Kawahara Taihachi , Matsumoto Takashi , Kilian Benjamin , Komatsuda Takao TITLE=On the Origin of the Non-brittle Rachis Trait of Domesticated Einkorn Wheat JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=8 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.02031 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2017.02031 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Einkorn and emmer wheat together with barley were among the first cereals domesticated by humans more than 10,000 years ago, long before durum or bread wheat originated. Domesticated einkorn wheat differs from its wild progenitor in basic morphological characters such as the grain dispersal system. This study identified the