Potential Use of Wild Einkorn Wheat for Wheat Grain Quality Improvement: Evaluation and Characterization of Glu-1, Wx and Ha Loci

Wild einkorn (Triticum monococcum L. ssp. aegilopoides (Link) Thell.) is a diploid wheat species from the Near East that has been classified as an ancestor of first cultivated (einkorn; T. monococcum). Its genome (Am), although it not donor A in polyploid wheat, shows high similarity to Au genome. An important characteristic for improvement grain quality, which associated with three components grain: endosperm storage proteins (gluten properties), starch synthases (starch characteristics) and puroindolines (grain hardness). In current study, these quality traits were studied one collection wild objective evaluating its variability respect traits. The combined use protein DNA analyses allows detecting numerous variants each following genes: six Ax, seven Ay, eight Wx, four Gsp-1, two Pina Pinb. presence this suggests potential source novel alleles could be used modern breeding.