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Note on Immune Wheats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Albert Howard  and
Gabrielle L. C. Howard
Albert Howard
Affiliation:
Imperial Economic Botanist to the Government of India
Gabrielle L. C. Howard
Affiliation:
formerly Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.
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While reading the two interesting papers on immune wheats in the last number of this Journal it occurred to us that our observations on rust resistant wheats in India might be of some interest. During the past two years a large number of varieties of Indian and European wheats have been grown by us at Pusa in Behar and at Lyallpur in the Punjab, one of the objects being to obtain wheats immune or at least resistant to rusts which would serve as parents in raising rust resistant hybrids. Biffen last year suggested that a trial should be made with Einkorn (Triticum monococcum vulgare, Kcke.), and kindly supplied us with a sample of the seed.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , December 1907 , pp. 278 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1907

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References

page 278 note 1 Biffen, , Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. II. p. 109;Google Scholar Marryat, ibid. Vol. II. p. 129.

page 280 note 1 The Indian varieties of Emmer are often referred to as Spelt wheats. We have however not yet discovered any Spelt wheats in India. As Spelts are mostly winter wheats it is hardly likely that they occur in India where the growing period of the crop is so short.