emmer

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• She owns a 240-acre farm and contracts with five other farmers to grow spelt, emmer, and einkorn—all among the oldest cultivated grains.

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• Historically, emmer was used widely in Europe before modern wheat became popular.

• That makes it easier to find which emmer chromosome contains a resistance gene.

  Academic text (1999)

• A wheat cousin called wild emmer has resistance genes that might be moved into domesticated wheat.

  Academic text (1999)

• Emmer is a relative of durum wheat, which is used to make flour for pasta and pizza dough.

  Academic text (1999)

• "When we find wheat-emmer hybrids that have a resistance gene or marker," Williams says, "we can select the best of these plants for further breeding."

  Academic text (1999)

• Consider: "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them."

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• The atalhykans grew their own cereals, such as emmer wheat, and legumes, such as peas and lentils; they raised their own sheep and goats; and, to a lesser extent, they hunted wild cattle.

  Academic text (2006)

• The ancient Egyptians cultivated emmer as a staple grain for making bread.

Synonyms

T

Triticum dicoccum

vsemmer

• Specialized

9.9

A kind of wheat also called emmer wheat used for bread and food for animals

has identical meaning but is the common name rather than the Latin form

T

two-grain spelt

vsemmer

• Specialized

9.9

A hard red wheat grown in Russia and Germany used mostly to feed farm animals

has identical meaning but uses a different traditional name

Compounds

W

wild emmer

9.5

A wild type of wheat that is the ancestor of farm wheat

Surface Forms

Etymology