• Allelic Variation at the Rht8 Locus in a 19th Century Wheat Collection 

      Asplund, Linnéa; Leino, Matti; Hagenblad, Jenny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Wheat breeding during the 20th century has put large efforts into reducing straw length and increasing harvest index. In the 1920s an allele of Rht8 with dwarfing effects, found in the Japanese cultivar “Akakomugi,” was ...