common buckwheat

Nutritive value of common buckwheat as a supplement to cereal grains.

The wild ancestor of common buckwheat is F. esculentum ssp.ancestrale.

Common Buckwheat (or buckwheat) is a plant.

Tartary buckwheat is bitterer, but contains more rutin than common buckwheat.

The sht1 locus is linked to the S locus; almost all common buckwheat cultivars possess the allele sht1.

Key words: common buckwheat, AFLP, linkage analysis, distylous self-incompatibility, shattering habit.

The villagers have been livestock rearers and traders, cultivating land in the valley with common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) and potatoes.

The cultivated species, common buckwheat (F. esculentum) and tartary buckwheat (F. tataricum), are grown as field crops.

With another species in the same genus, common buckwheat, it is often counted as a cereal, but unlike the true cereals the buckwheats are not members of the grass family.

Nutrition and interspecific interactions In both Saskatchewan and British Columbia, the flowering season of the buckwheat hostplants corresponds closely to the flight period of the butterfly, whereas other common buckwheat species bloom considerably earlier.

Common buckwheat was domesticated and first cultivated in inland Southeast Asia, possibly around 6000 BCE, and from there spread to Central Asia and Tibet, and then to the Middle East and Europe.

To detect molecular makers linked to the sht1 locus, we used amplified fragment-length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis in combination with bulked segregant analysis of segregating progeny of a cross between a non-brittle common buckwheat and a brittle self-compatible buckwheat line.