Triticum urartu

Triticum urartu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Triticum
Species: T. urartu
Binomial name
Triticum urartu
Thumanjan ex Gandilyan
Synonyms[1]
  • Crithodium urartu (Gandilyan) Á.Löve
  • Triticum michaelii Zhuk. nom. inval.

Triticum urartu, also known as red wild einkorn,[2] is a grass species related to wheat, and native to western Asia. It is a diploid species whose genome is the A genome of the allopolyploid hexaploid bread wheat Triticum aestivum, which has genomes AABBDD.[3]

References

  1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  2. USDA GRIN Taxonomy, retrieved 7 May 2015
  3. Ling, H.-Q.; Zhao, S.; Liu, D.; Wang, J.; Sun, H.; Zhang, C.; Fan, H.; Li, D.; Dong, L.; Tao, Y.; Gao, C.; Wu, H.; Li, Y.; Cui, Y.; Guo, X.; Zheng, S.; Wang, B.; Yu, K.; Liang, Q.; Yang, W.; Lou, X.; Chen, J.; Feng, M.; Jian, J.; Zhang, X.; Luo, G.; Jiang, Y.; Liu, J.; Wang, Z.; Sha, Y.; Zhang, B.; Wu, H.; Tang, D.; Shen, Q.; Xue, P.; Zou, S.; Wang, X.; Liu, X.; Wang, F.; Yang, Y.; An, X.; Dong, Z.; Zhang, K.; Zhang, X.; Luo, M.-C.; Dvorak, J.; Tong, Y.; Wang, J.; Yang, H.; Li, Z.; Wang, D.; Zhang, A.; Wang, J. (2013). "Draft genome of the wheat A-genome progenitor Triticum urartu". Nature 496 (7443): 87–90. doi:10.1038/nature11997.
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