| Accessions collected by BMUK identified as Aegilops
searsii FELDMAN & KISLEV Giles WAINES Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, U.S.A Recently Dr. M. FELDMAN has collected material of a new diploid species of Aegilops in Israel which has been called Ae. searsii (FELDMAN and KISLEV 1977). It has been known for some time that a new variety of Aegilaps longissima SCHWEINF. & MUSCH. was collected by BMUK in Jordan (YAMASHITA and TANAKA 1967). These two new taxa appear to be one and the same. The ethanol-extracted, seed-protein electrophoretic patterns of 5 accessions made by BMUK are different from those of Ae. longissima and will be described elsewhere. In particular, all have a band faster than any so far found among Aegilops species. There are also other protein band differences. The BMUK accessions are Nos. 5751, 5755, 5756, 5758, 5760, and there may be others. Collection data for these accessions are listed by YAMASHITA and TANAKA (1967). Literature Cited FELDMAN, M. and M. KISLEV. 1977. Aegilops searsii, a new species of section Sitopsis (Platystachis). Israeli J. of Botany. (in press). YAMASHITA, K. and M. TANAKA 1967. List of Aegilops collected by BMUK, 1959. W.I.S. 23, 24: 46-68. (Received Aug. 2, 1977) |