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

[maarten.vanginkel at dpi.vic.gov.au]

Laura,

Thanks for the effort made. I agree that photographs may not capture all
relevant morphological details and that pen drawings can do so. They
complement one another. I will try to get a hold of Slageren's book.

Regards,
             Maarten




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Dear Maarten,

The 1994 monograph on Aegilops done by Michael van Slageren is your best
bet for an easy to locate, and excellent quality, botanical illustration of

Ae. taushcii (and all other Aegilops species).  Copies should be available
at libraries or germplasm units.  Info for purchasing from ICARDA can be
found here: http://www.icarda.org/Publications/Price_List/Book2/Book2.html

In case the link doesn't work, here's the book title,etc:   M.W. Slageren.
1994. Wild Wheats: a Monograph of Aegilops L. and Amblyopyrum (Jaub &
Spach) Eig (Poaceae). Wageningen Agricultural University Papers
94-7.  Wageningen Agricultural University & ICARDA.

Finding good botanical illustrations of the wheats, either available in
texts or on the internet, is fundamentally an issue of funding. There
hasn't been a strong interest in supporting taxonomic work nor a
recognition for its value.  Similarly, the little work that has been
supported has been largely undertaken with the presumption that photos are
a suitable alternative to Herbarium specimens and
illustrations.   Regrettably, they're not.

If WAU and ICARDA can be convinced to make the Aegilops illustrations
available for posting on the GrainTax website, that would be a nice step
forward.  I also have other wheat illustrations done by the same artist as
those provided by Mary Barkworth which could be posted provided copyright
issues don't arise for their later publication.

As the principal contributor to GrainTax
(http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/ggpages/GrainTax/index.shtml), which links to the

KSU Wheat Genetic Resources site
(https://www.ksu.edu/wgrc/Taxonomy/taxintro.html), for most of the
postings, I can speak to the desire for getting keys, drawings, etc. posted

and universally available. Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to contend

with the reality that such work doesn't attract funds.  Thus, GrainTax is
still "in-process". Unless there are plentiful volunteer hours available,
this type of useful taxonomic information can't get beyond back burner
status.

Perhaps your frustrations in searching for good illustrations will help
stir up some interest in addressing the funding issue.

Laura Morrison
Wheat Synonymy Project




At 09:52 PM 12/24/2005, maarten.vanginkel at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:

>Mary,
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>Thanks very much. These are what I need. The final missing one would be
>Triticum tauschii (or Aegilops squarrosa, or permutations). Do you have a
>drawing of that final D-genome donor?
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>Regards,
>                  Maarten
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>Maarten, I thope these are of some assistance.  The treatment they are
>to complement will one day be http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual - as
>well as being published in Flora of North America vol. 24 (before the
>end of 2006).  We shall put up the individual illustrations shortly.  We
>shall be revising these illustrations to ensure that the distinguishing
>features, as reflected in Laura Morrison's key, are shown.  I am glad
>that someone else, like me, is frustrated by the lack of illustrations
>to use when one is talking about the development of wheat.
>Incidentally, Nikolay Goncharov has a very interesting paper that
>pertains to some of the finer taxonomic distinctions that will be coming
>out in the Czech J. of Genetics and Plant Breeding in the near future -
>it is based on a presentation that he gave at the trit meeting in Prague
>this past summer.
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>Mary
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>(See attached file: Triticum_combined_1_provisional_ill.jpg)(See attached
>file: Triticum_combined_2_provisional_ill.jpg)
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