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Paper analysed the list of genes determining the dwarfness in selected species of cereal plants. Most of the dwarfness determining genes were described in wheat (25), the two of them (Rht1, Rht2) are utilized in breeding practice all over the world. Much less of the dwarfness genes have been identified in barley (11) and rye (15), and only individual genes, viz. denso and Ddw1, are applied in breeding of short-stemmed varieties of these cereals.