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    Registration of a hard red winter wheat genetic stock homozygous for ph1b for facilitating alien introgression for crop improvement

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    Citation: Friebe, B., Qi, L., Liu, C., Liu, W., & Gill, B. S. (2012). Registration of a hard red winter wheat genetic stock homozygous for ph1b for facilitating alien introgression for crop improvement. Retrieved from http://krex.ksu.eduWild relatives of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum L. are an important source for disease and pest resistance that can be exploited in wheat improvement. However, in wheat/alien species hybrids the pairing homoeologous gene, Ph1, suppresses the pairing and recombination of wheat and alien chromosomes and, thus, no alien genetic transfer can occur. However, in plants nullisomic for the Ph1 gene, and in the ph1b mutant stock, having a large deletion at the Ph1 locus, homoeologous wheat and alien chromosomes can pair and recombine. The original ph1b mutant stock is in Chinese Spring background, which has poor agronomic characteristics and several backcrosses with adapted wheat cultivars are necessary before the agronomic performance of the recombinants can be evaluated. The present report describes the transfer and characterization of the ph1b mutant allele into adapted Kansas winter wheat, which will accelerate the evaluation and utilization of wheat alien recombinants in cultivar improvement

    More Than Speed? an Empirical Study of Touchscreens and Body Awareness on an Object Manipulation Task

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    Touchscreen interfaces do more than allow users to execute speedy interactions. Three interfaces (touchscreen, mouse-drag, on-screen button) were used in the service of performing an object manipulation task. Results showed that planning time was shortest with touch screens, that touchscreens allowed high action knowledge users to perform the task more efficiently, and that only with touchscreens was the ability to rotate the object the same across all axes of rotation. The concept of closeness is introduced to explain the potential advantages of touchscreen interfaces
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