From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 63554
Date: 2009-03-02
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18521123?dopt=Abstract
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> If somebody can access this article please tell me
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> "Reassessing domestication events in the Near East: Einkorn and
> Triticum urartu.
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> Heun M, Haldorsen S, Vollan K.
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> Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA),
> Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), N-1432 As, Norway.
> manfred.heun@...
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> To reassess domestication events in the Near East, accessions of
> Triticum urartu from a well-described sampling were combined with a
> representative sample covering the Karacadað Einkorn wheat
> domestication. The observed DNA separation between the two wheat
> species accounts for the main differentiation, but geographic
> variation within T. urartu is evident and so is the domestication
> scenario among wild, feral, and domesticated Einkorn. In contrast
> the clear DNA differences, it is difficult to separate living T.contain
> urartu from wild Einkorn based on morphology. With archaeobotanical
> material a distinction of carbonized remains of these two wheats is
> considered to be impossible. We reviewed the differences concerning
> morphology and maturity and combined these observations with
> information about archaeological sites in the Near East. In
> conclusion, the excavation sites in the middle Euphrates may
> T. urartu rather than Einkorn wheat and T. urartu may underlie theThe 'original' .pdf (not the 'reassessed' one) is here....
> reported occurrence of the extinct 2-grained domesticated "Einkorn"
> wheat. The first Einkorn wheat domestication sensu stricto seems to
> have happened around the Karacadað, as reported earlier. The human
> dimension shown by the excavation of Göbekli Tepe can explain why
> domesticated phenotypes might have spread quickly.
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> PMID: 18521123 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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> Thanks,
> Marius