Triticum urartu | |
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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 |
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Triticum urartu, also known as red wild einkorn, 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.