Meanings
plural secalotricums
- countableuncountableA hybrid of wheat and rye, similar to triticale but using rye as the cytoplasm donor.
The tetraploid secalotricums were characterized by a considerable cytological stability, as only 15.10 to 17.68% of the tetrads had micronuclei.
2002, J. Stoinova, “Genome Analysis and Meiotic Behaviour of New Tetraploid Secalotricum Forms”, in Cytologia, volume 67, number 32 more examples
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.
2007 May, A.F. Topunov, “To the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vaclaw Leonovich Kretovich”, in Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology, volume 43, number 3In some embodiments, techniques and methods useful herein may produce secalotricum in which rye cytoplasm and it is used with wheat pollen to produce triticale.
2013, D. Penner, M. Simarmata, Glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate (epsp) synthase: US Patent App. 13/772,007
Origin
Blend of Latin secale + triticum
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