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Sixteen durum wheat landraces, i .e . 6 from Algeria, 5 from Ethiopia and 5 from Italy were analysed in order to ascertain the amount of variation for all 11 spike characters . For each population the differences among spike progenies were significant for all the observed characters . Principal component analysis showed that 4 factors accounted for 80% of the total variation . Component I accounted for 32% of the total variation and was associated with spike width, spike density, number of kernels per spikelet and kernel weight . Component 2 accounted for 24% of the total variation and was associated with number of fertile spikelets, total number of spikelets and spike length . In a scatter diagram of all 1127 spike progenies for the first two principal components, the material from Ethiopia and Italy clustered at two opposite sides, while the material from Algeria had the largest swarm and overlapped the other two groups of material . Differences among populations from the same origin were found . The ecological and anthropological causes that may have played a role in the creation of the observed variation in the examined populations, are discussed .

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Author

P. L. Spagnolettizeuli; C. De Pace; E. Porceddu

Publisher

Springer; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0014-2336)

Published

1984

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)