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genus Agropyron - perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass

liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane

wheatgrass, wheat-grass - a grass of the genus Agropyron

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Cytotaxonomy of the species and interspecific hybrids of the genus Agropyron in Canada and neighboring areas.

Characterization of amphiploid hybrids between bluebunch and thickspike wheatgrasses

The objectives of this study were to: (i) examine the phylogeny of selected populations from the genus Agropyron by means of AFLPs; (ii) examine the partitioning of within and among population variances of selected common crested wheatgrass cultivars; and (iii) compare cluster analyses on the basis of [[PHI].sub.st] and Euclidian distance from population bulks.

Genetic relationships among selected crested wheatgrass cultivars and species determined on the basis of AFLP markers. (Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics)

In the classification system of Barkworth and Dewey (1985), the genus Agropyron is restricted to the group of species with the P genome known as the crested wheatgrasses.

Nuclear DNA Content of Perennial Grasses of the Triticeae

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