Encyclopedia > Emmer wheat

Article Content

Emmer wheat

Emmer wheat is a wild species of wheat, Triticum dicoccoides. A tetraploid species.

The domesticated variant was used in ancient times in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent. Also used in modern Ethiopia.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Urethra

... outside of the body. The urethra has an excretory function in both sexes, to pass urine to the outside, and also a reproductive function in the male, as a passage fo ...