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Emmer wheat
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Emmer wheat

Emmer wheat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Triticum
Species:dicoccoides
Binomial name
triticum dicoccoides

Emmer wheat is a wild species of wheat officially known as Triticum dicoccoides. It is a tetraploid species. The domesticated variant was used in ancient times in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent. Also used in modern Ethiopia.

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