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TRITICUM VULGARE [3 records]

Record 1 2021-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
  • Grain Growing
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

OBS

common wheat; bread wheat; wheat: designations standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
  • Culture des céréales
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

OBS

blé; blé tendre; froment : désignations normalisées par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
  • Cultivo de cereales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
DEF

Planta herbácea, anual, de la familia de las gramíneas [...] que se caracteriza por las espiguillas con dos o más flores, con las glumas terminadas en largas aristas, que se insertan de una en una, apretadas, sobre el eje de la espiga.

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Record 2 2012-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
  • Grain Growing
Universal entry(ies)
CONT

Club wheat (Triticum compactum). Widely grown for food before common bread wheat dominated wheat growing. The heads and beards are short, the yield is good, and it threshes easily, producing plump blond kernels.

CONT

The spikes of club wheat are significantly more compact than spikes of common wheat due to the action of the dominant allele of the compactum (C) locus.

OBS

A plant of the family Poaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
  • Culture des céréales
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CONT

Blé à épi court, barbu ou non. La forme de l'épi est déterminé par une mutation du gène C, que le blé compact est le seul à posséder.

OBS

Plante de la famille des Poaceae.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
  • Cultivo de cereales
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 3 2012-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Grain Growing
DEF

A destructive kernel smut of wheat caused by either of two fungi (Tilletia caries or T. foetida) and characterized by replacement of the normal grains with considerably smaller greasy masses of fishy smelling smut spores.

OBS

bunt; common bunt: terms used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Culture des céréales
OBS

Cette maladie est causée par deux champignons étroitement apparentés, dont chacun attaque différents types de grain. Dans les plantes atteintes, les grains sur les plantes à épi sont remplacés par des spores poudreuses noirâtres appelées des balles sporifères.

OBS

carie; carie du blé : termes en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de las plantas
  • Cultivo de cereales
DEF

Nombre común de las enfermedades de las gramíneas del género Triticum y en especial del T. durum, T. spelta y T. vulgare, provocadas por hongos basidiomecetes del género Tilletia, fam. tiletiaceas [...]

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