Claim · model-written summary
Major defects of triticales included wrinkled grain, sterility in the spikes and low grain yield.
- Taxon
- triticales
×Triticosecalee0 - Outcome
- wrinkled grain, sterility in the spikes, low grain yielde0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Major defects of triticales included wrinkled grain, sterility in the spikes, low grain yield, poor baking and milling quality, and late maturity”
Title
Triticale… problems and progress with a new cereal crop
C. O. Qualset; W. H. Isom; J Prato; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 1969
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Bread wheat-rye triticales (octoploids) did not combine the desirable qualities of the two parents as anticipated.
- Observation Durum wheat-rye triticales (hexaploids) did not meet expectations.
- Observation Major defects of triticales also included poor baking and milling quality and late maturity.
- Observation New crosses among triticales themselves produced agronomically promising types.