secalotricum
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of secale + triticum, from Latin.
Noun edit
secalotricum (countable and uncountable, plural secalotricums)
- A hybrid of wheat and rye, similar to triticale but using rye as the cytoplasm donor.
- 2002, J. Stoinova, “Genome Analysis and Meiotic Behaviour of New Tetraploid Secalotricum Forms”, in Cytologia, volume 67, number 3:
- The tetraploid secalotricums were characterized by a considerable cytological stability, as only 15.10 to 17.68% of the tetrads had micronuclei.
- 2007 May, A.F. Topunov, “To the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vaclaw Leonovich Kretovich”, in Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology, volume 43, number 3:
- Kretovich was involved in a comparative study of the proteins of wheat, rye, and the first rye–wheat hybrid, bred by Academician GK Meister—the amphidiploid secalotricum.
- 2013, D. Penner, M. Simarmata, Glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (epsp) synthase: US Patent App. 13/772,007:
- In some embodiments, techniques and methods useful herein may produce secalotricum in which rye cytoplasm and it is used with wheat pollen to produce triticale.