Wheat

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Buckwheat

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In the News . . .

How pasta became the world's favourite food -- BBCNews (15 June 2011)
Ancient Grains: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? -- Los Angeles Times (19 February 2011)
Wild Food Crop Relatives to Be 'Rescued' -- BBC News (10 December 2010)
Greatest thing since sliced bread: New data offer important clues toward improving wheat yields -- Tracey DePellegrin Connelly, EurekaAlert! (10 March 2009)

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bulgur

NOUN:

Cracked wheat grains, often used in Middle Eastern dishes. Also called bulgur wheat.

ETYMOLOGY:

Ottoman Turkish bulur, from Arabic burul, burl, from Persian barghl.

VARIANT FORMS:

also bul·ghur

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emmer

NOUN:

A Eurasian wheat (Triticum dicoccum) first cultivated by the Babylonians and now widely grown as a cereal grain and as livestock feed. Also called starch wheat, two-grained spelt.

ETYMOLOGY:

German, from Middle High German amer, emeri, from Old High German amaro.

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spelt

NOUN:

A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.

ETYMOLOGY:

Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin spelta, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch spelte, wheat.

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durum

NOUN:

A hardy wheat (Triticum turgidum, formerly T. durum) used chiefly in making pasta.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin drum, neuter of drus, hard. See deru- in Appendix I.

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triticale

NOUN:

1. A hardy hybrid of wheat and rye having a high yield. 2. The grains of this hybrid.

ETYMOLOGY:

Latin trticum, wheat (from trtus, past participle of terere, to rub, thresh; see trite) + scale, rye.

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Wheat

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Subclass:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Tribe:	Triticeae
Genus:	Triticum
Species:	T. aestivum T. aethiopicum T. araraticum T. boeoticum T. carthlicum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. ispahanicum T. karamyschevii T. macha T. militinae T. monococcum T. polonicum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum T. timopheevii T. turanicum T. turgidum T. urartu T. vavilovii T. zhukovskyi

Binomial name

Wikispecies

Humans took 1000 years to tame wild plants, Science Online, 23 Apr 2004
The Food Timeline – Lynne Olver, Morris County Library NJ
Stone Age humans ate porridge on holiday, Science Online, 28 Jun 2004
Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
USDA Economic Research Service
- Crops
  - Wheat
Wheat [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

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Important archaeological sites

Fertile Crescent

Wheat spikelet with the three anthers sticking out

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Wheat Field with Crows
Vincent van Gogh
(1890)

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Wheat harvest on the Palouse

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Cracked wheat

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