''Aegilops tauschii'', the Tausch's goatgrass or rough-spike hard grass, is an annual

grass Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and spe ...

species. It is native to Crimea, the Caucasus region, western and Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the western Himalaya, and parts of China, and has been introduced to other locales, including California.

Taxonomy

''Aegilops tauschii'' is part of the tribe

Triticeae Triticeae is a botanical tribe within the subfamily Pooideae of grasses that includes genera with many domesticated species. Major crop genera found in this tribe include wheat (see wheat taxonomy), barley, and rye; crops in other genera includ ...

, along with

wheat Wheat is a group of wild and crop domestication, domesticated Poaceae, grasses of the genus ''Triticum'' (). They are Agriculture, cultivated for their cereal grains, which are staple foods around the world. Well-known Taxonomy of wheat, whe ...

. It is a

diploid Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Here ''sets of chromosomes'' refers to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, ...

(2n=2x=14, DD) goatgrass species which has contributed the D

genome A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as ...

common wheat Common wheat (''Triticum aestivum''), also known as bread wheat, is a cultivated wheat species. About 95% of wheat produced worldwide is common wheat; it is the most widely grown of all crops and the cereal with the highest monetary yield. Ta ...

Genome

Zimin ''et al.'', 2016 provides a genome assembly. : : :This review cites this research. : : The ' nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat (NLR) is a resistance gene used in hexaploid wheat but originating in this species. ''Lr42'' confers all-stage resistance to leaf rust. Lin ''et al.'', 2022 localize ''Lr42'' to by

cloning Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means. In nature, some organisms produce clones through asexual reproduction; this reproduction of an organism by itself without ...

and sequence- and functional-analyses. : : :This review cites this research. : :

Subspecies

The following subspecies are accepted: *''Aegilops tauschii'' subsp. ''strangulata'' – western part of range *''Aegilops tauschii'' subsp. ''tauschii''

References

tauschii Wheat Grasses of Asia Flora of temperate Asia Plants described in 1849 {{Pooideae-stub