Triticum carthlicum

Triticum carthlicum Nevski, 1934, the Persian wheat, is a wheat with a tetraploid genome.

Persian wheat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Triticum
Species:
T. carthlicum
Binomial name
Triticum carthlicum
Nevski, 1934

Some scholars refer to it as T. turgidum subspecies carthlicum. Recent research suggest that T. carthlicum originated from a cross between domesticated emmer wheat and T. aestivum.

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