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Acknowledgments

Receipt of the seed of Thatcher and the Thatcher-backcross lines from Dr. R.A. McIntosh, University of Sydney, Australia, and from the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Canada, is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks are due to Mr. Jagdish for his help with the glasshouse studied.

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