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Taxon: Agropyron mongolicum Keng

 
Genus: Agropyron
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Pooideae
Tribe: Triticeae
Subtribe: Hordeinae
Nomen number: 102764
Place of publication: J. Washington Acad. Sci. 28:305. 1938
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 06-Nov-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Animal food: forage;

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Asia-Temperate
    • CHINA: China [Gansu Sheng, Shanxi Sheng, Shaanxi Sheng, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Ningxia Huizi Zizhiqu, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]


References:

  1. Chen, Q. et al. 1990. Intergeneric hybrids between Triticum aestivum and three crested wheatgrasses: Agropyron mongolicum, A. michnoi, and A. desertorum. Genome 33:663-667. Note: it obtained one verified hybrid (2n=28) that did not survive afer 4-months of tissue culture
  2. Dong, Y. S. et al. 1992. Desirable characteristics in perennial Triticeae collected in China for wheat improvement. Hereditas (Beijing) 116:175-182.
  3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Agropyron+mongolicum&quantity=1 target='_blank'
  4. Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977-. Flora intramongolica.
  5. Mellish, A. et al. 2002. Genetic relationships among selected crested wheatgrass cultivars and species determined on the basis of AFLP markers. Crop Sci. (Madison) 42:1662-1668.
  6. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  7. Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals 77-108.
  8. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Check other web resources for Agropyron mongolicum Keng :

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=102764. Accessed 19 May 2024.