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Journal of Heredity Advance Access first published online on April 13, 2005
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Journal of Heredity, doi:10.1093/jhered/esi060
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Received March 23, 2004
Accepted January 3, 2005

Brief Communication

The Transfer and History of "Reduced Height Genes" (Rht) in Wheat from Japan to Europe

Katarina Borojevic 1 and Ksenija Borojevic 2*

1 From the Faculty of Natural Science (emerita), University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Monte Negro
2 From the Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-3350

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Ksenija Borojevic, E-mail: borojevi{at}uab.edu


  Abstract

Wheat is the main crop and often a strategic crop in many European countries. From a historical perspective, we describe the transfer of "reduced height genes" (Rht genes) from Japanese wheat varieties to wheat varieties in Europe and their influence on the increase of the total wheat production in the last century. Historic pathways of Rht genes were influenced directly or indirectly by wheat breeders exchanging seed samples and by some governments importing large quantities of wheat during historically critical periods for their countries.

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