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A NUMBER of varieties of tetraploid wheats originating from Abyssinia have purple- or violet-coloured grains, due to the presence of an anthocyanin in the cells of the pericarp. As part of a programme of hybridizations undertaken for the production of tester stocks carrying useful marker genes, a white-grained eligulate variety of Triticum durum Desf. (from Cyprus) was crossed with a purple grained variety from Abyssinia, T. durum var. arraseita Hochst. (= T. dicoccum var. arraseita Perc.). Although the F 2 family raised was only small, it is felt that the results should be put on record because they indicate that the purple pericarp colour is inherited as a simple monofactorial dominant.
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SHARMAN, B. ‘Purple Pericarp’: a Monofactorial Dominant in Tetraploid Wheats. Nature 181, 929 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181929a0
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