''Triticum zhukovskyi'', or Zhukovsky's wheat, is a
hexaploid
Polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than one pair of (homologous) chromosomes. Most species whose cells have nuclei (eukaryotes) are diploid, meaning they have two sets of chromosomes, where each set contains ...
wheat, very closely resembling the
Triticum timopheevii, a
tetraploid
Polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than one pair of (homologous) chromosomes. Most species whose cells have nuclei (eukaryotes) are diploid, meaning they have two sets of chromosomes, where each set contains ...
variety of wheat. ''T. zhukovskyi'' was first observed in Western Georgia in close proximity to ''
Triticum timopheevii'' and ''
Triticum monococcum
Einkorn wheat (from German ''Einkorn'', literally "single grain") can refer either to a wild species of wheat (''Triticum'') or to its domesticated form. The wild form is '' T. boeoticum'' (syn. ''T. m.'' ssp. ''boeoticum''), the domesticated ...
'' and is believed to be an
amphiploid
Polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than one pair of ( homologous) chromosomes. Most species whose cells have nuclei (eukaryotes) are diploid, meaning they have two sets of chromosomes, where each set contains ...
arising from the cross of ''T. timopheevii'' and ''T. monococcum''.
[M. D. Upadhya & M.S. Swaminathan. (1963) ''Genome analysis in Triticum zhukovskyi, a New Hexaploid Wheat''. Springer-Verlag. p. 1. . ]
References
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