| A Documintary of the Botanical Expedition to the Heart
of the Aegilops Distribution SCENARIO by K. YAMASHITA Biological Laboratory, Yoshida college, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Introduction A graciously extended grant by the Rockefeller Foundation enabled the Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, to carry out the long planned expedition, recorded under the titel: Botanical Mission of the Kyoto University (BMUK), Kyoto, Japan; Dr. Masatake TANAKA, Assistant Professor, Dr. Osamu SUZUKA, Lecturer, and Mr. Seiji NAKAMURA, Cameraman of the Nichiei Co., Tokyo, Japan. The editing and printing costs of the film have been partly defrayed by a Grant in Aid from the Ministry of Education, Government of Japan. The presented film was completed in March, 1963 by the Nichiei Co., Tokyo, Japan. We have Einkorn wheat, Emmer wheat and Dinkel wheat. Dinkel, our bread wheat, is known to have developed from the hybrid of Emmer and Aegilops squarrosa. Similarly, our Emmer wheat would have its origin in a cross of Einkorn with an unknown plant. What was the B-genome donor to wheat? The regions from Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan, through Syria and Turkey, to Greece were covered by the expedition. The following table shows a list of the collections. Aegilops mutica and the species of the Sitopsis section will be most useful for our further studies in relation to the origin of wheat. Now, Ladies and Gentelmen: we are very pleased to present an aerial view of the Nile, the artery of life in Egypt. Its water nourishes the Delta, which HERODOTUS described as "doron tou potamou". The CHEOPS Pyramid in Gizah. The elevation angle of the edge we climed with efforts is approximately 42 degrees. We were rewarded by a grand view of the Desert and the Oasis commanded, from the top of the height of 147 meters. |
| --> Next |