Plant Genomics: Unlocking the Genome of Wheat’s Progenitor Cristobal Uauy  Current Biology  Volume 27, Issue 20, Pages R1122-R1124 (October 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.051 Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Wild emmer wheat. (A) Wild emmer wheat growing in a natural stand in Israel (image credit: Zvi Peleg). (B) Wild emmer (blue) is the progenitor for both major wheat types consumed today, bread and durum pasta wheat. The Brittle raquis 1 (Btr1) genes on the A and B genomes control the shattering of the spike, a major domestication traits. The combination of recessive mutations (lowercase) in both genomes leads to the non-brittle phenotype of domesticated wheat. Current Biology 2017 27, R1122-R1124DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.051) Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions