Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Agropyron bessarabicum Savul. & Rayss
• (≡) Elytrigia bessarabica (Savul. & Rayss) Dubovik

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Turkey

Europe

• EASTERN EUROPE: Moldova (Black Sea shores), Ukraine (Black Sea shores)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria (Black Sea shores), Greece, [Aegean Islands] Romania (Black Sea shores)

References:

1. Colmer, T. D. et al. 2006. Use of wild relatives to improve salt tolerance in wheat. J. Exp. Bot. 57:1059-1078.
2. Dewey, D. R. 1984. The genomic system of classification as a guide to intergeneric hybridization with the perennial Triticeae. Gene manipulation in plant improvement. 274. Note: Plenum Publishing, New York.New York.
3. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). Note: = Elytrigia bessarabica
4. Jarvie, J. K. 1992. Taxonomy of Elytrigia sect. Caespitosae and sect. Junceae (Gramineae: Triticeae). Nordic J. Bot. 12:167.
5. Jiang, J. et al. 1994. Recent advances in alien gene transfer in wheat. Euphytica 73:199-212. Note: recognizes Thinopyrum in the tertiary gene pool of wheat
6. Wang, R. R.-C. et al. 2010. Analyses of Thinopyrum bessarabicum, T. elongatum, and T. junceum chromosomes using EST-SSR markers. Genome 53:1083-1089.
7. Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals 77-108.

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=314142. Accessed 18 May 2024.