''Triticum urartu'', also known as red wild einkorn wheat, and a form of

einkorn wheat Einkorn wheat (from German ''Einkorn'', literally "single grain") can refer to either a wild species of wheat (''Triticum'') or a domesticated form of wheat. The wild form is ''T. boeoticum'' (syn. ''T. m.'' subsp. ''boeoticum''), and the domes ...

, is a grass species related to wheat, and native to western Asia. It is a

diploid Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Here ''sets of chromosomes'' refers to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, ...

species whose genome is the A genome of the allopolyploid hexaploid

bread wheat Common wheat (''Triticum aestivum''), also known as bread wheat, is a cultivated wheat species. About 95% of wheat produced worldwide is common wheat; it is the most widely grown of all crops and the cereal with the highest monetary yield. Ta ...

''Triticum aestivum'', which has genomes AABBDD.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15328587 Pooideae Wheat Cytogenetics Grasses of Lebanon