Sentences with phrase «chromosome emmer wheat»

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.

Not exact matches

Emmer (a tetraploid grass) has four chromosomes, compared to Einkorn's two, and Spelt (a hexaploid wheat variant) has six chromosomes.

If you believe in eating less complex grains, einkorn, barley, and rye are diploid, with two sets of chromosomes; emmer and durum including kamut are a little more complex; they're tetraploids with four sets of chromosomes; spelt and bread wheat varieties are hexaploid with six sets of chromosomes.