Sentences with phrase «wild emmer wheat»

Wild emmer wheat is the original form of nearly all the domesticated wheat in the world, including durum (pasta) and bread wheat.

Wheat breeder Jorge Dubcovsky of the University of California, Davis, led an international team that discovered the gene — dubbed gpc - B1 for its effect on grain protein content — in a wild emmer wheat that has grown naturally in the Middle East for millennia.

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They also performed an exome capture — based analysis of domestication among wild and domesticated genotypes of emmer wheat.

Identifying genetic modifications underlying wheat's domestication requires knowledge about the genome of its allo - tetraploid progenitor, wild emmer (T. turgidum ssp.

Among the errors in the book are the following: the wild progenitor of wheat, emmer, did not grow «only in the upper Jordan Valley around Jericho» — it grew in the hills of the Mediterranean zone (Galilee, Lebanon, southern Anatolia) and was brought into the arid Jordan valley by Neolithic farmers who learned to grow it under irrigation.

Though there is evidence of earlier use of wild cereals, it was not until after 9500 B.C.E. that the eight so - called Neolithic founder crops of agriculture appeared: first emmer wheat and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas, and flax.

That's how 28 - chromosome emmer wheat, for instance, mated with another 14 - chromosome wild grass, goat grass, and yielded the ancestor of all modern wheat, the first Triticum aestivum species.