These farmers selected seeds that exhibited traits that made emmer easier to harvest and eat ... where durum became the source of pasta. Cattivelli, an expert on the wheat genome, says the next ...

Wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, (2n = 4x = 28, AABB), is the direct wild ancestor of both durum and bread wheat, providing novel natural variation for modern wheat improvement. Researchers ...

Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccum (Schrank) Thell.) (Figure 1) was a cereal integral to life in the ancient world. From its early beginnings during the mid 8th millennium BC, emmer quickly ...