Botany or taxonomy text with clear (pen) drawings of florets, spikelets and spikes

[Dave Matthews]

Hi Maarten,

> From maarten.vanginkel at dpi.vic.gov.au  Fri Dec 16 22:17:09 2005
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Do you know where I could find a botany or taxonomy text with clear (pen)
> drawings of the florets, spikelets and spikes of wheat and its progenitors?
> Most modern texts have photos, while I need the classical precise pen
> drawings.
> 
> Regards,
>             Maarten

I'm stumped.  Passing this along to others who may be able to help.

The best resource I know for the progenitors is "Wild Wheat", but those
are all photos.  For what it's worth, they're all in GrainGenes,
http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/report?class=reference&name=MOR-353

For non-comparative purposes, just wheat:

Gramene is working on this.  They have some good drawings for rice,
http://www.gramene.org/oryza/rice_illustrations.html#oryzaspikelet
but not yet for wheat as far as I can find,
http://dev.gramene.org/triticum/triticum_anatomy_and_taxonomy.html

Keith Edwards' "Wheat: the big picture", http://www.wheatbp.net,
has some good photos.  Not drawings but they are labeled.  E.g.
http://www.wheatbp.net/cgi-bin/grain2.pl?topic=Flowering+and+fertilisation&sub_topic=Anthesis:+floret+pictures&GS=5&sub=2

There are a couple of drawings of a general grass floret at
http://www.pssc.ttu.edu/pss1321/Web%20topics/cpa2.htm

I hope someone can help with this.  It would be a good thing to add
to GrainGenes.

best,
- Dave