Al-Juraba is a local bread-wheat landrace of the Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia, whose spike is distinguished by absent or very short awns.
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Al-Juraba is a local bread-wheat landrace of the Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia, whose spike is distinguished by absent or very short awns.
Al-Ma'a-Halba is a local bread-wheat landrace of Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia, with tall awns and a spike 10.5–12 cm long.
Al-Ma'a-Samma is a local bread-wheat landrace of Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia, with medium-length awns and a spike 7–10 cm long.
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Hanttah-Najed (also called Hanttah-Al-Qassim) is a local bread-wheat landrace of Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia, with a short awn not exceeding 3 cm and a spike 10–11 cm long.
Local wheat landraces of Asir include Al-Mabia, Al-Qayyad and Smyran; Al-Taif has Al-Nakhla, Al-Naqra and Hamis; and farmers in Al-Madinah refer to a variety called Sindhi.
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Saudi farmers have inherited local wheat landraces over many generations; their importance lies in their adaptation to extreme heat, drought and salinity, and seeds of 61 accessions were placed in long-term storage in the KACST gene bank.