Triticum timopheevii

Taxobox
name = Timopheev's wheat


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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
genus = Triticum
species = "T. timopheevii"
binomial = "Triticum timopheevii"
binomial_authority = Zhuk.

Timopheev's Wheat ("Triticum timopheevii", also called Zanduri Wheat) is a tetraploid wheat that has both cultivated and wild forms. The domesticated form is restricted to western Georgia, while the wild form (formerly categorized as "T. araticum" Jakubz.) can be found across south-eastern Turkey, north Iraq, west Iran and Transcaucasia.

Timopheev's wheat evolved isolated from the more common "Triticum turgidum", and hybrids between "T. timopheevii" and "T. turgidum" are reportedly sterile with "a considerable amount of chromosomal irregularities in meiosis".

References

* Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf, "Domestication of plants in the Old World," third edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 58f.