The domestication of the one-grained einkorn (Triticum monococcum) in the Near East is relatively well known. However, an independent two-grained einkorn-like domestication has been archaeobotanically detected and scarce information is available. Triticum urartu, a wild wheat, was not fully described until the 1970s because the phenology does not allow it to be distinguished easily from wild ei...

Triticum monococcum (genome A(m)) and T. urartu (genome A(u)) are diploid wheats, with the first having been domesticated in the Neolithic Era and the second being a wild species. In a germplasm collection, rare wild T. urartu lines with the presence of T. monococcum alleles were found. This stimulated our interest to develop interspecific introgression lines of T. urartu in T. monococcum, a br...

Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are believed to play essential roles in developmental processes and in responses to heat stress. Heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are important Hsp regulators, but their functions are poorly understood, especially in wheat. In this study, a comprehensive bioinformatics analysis was conducted in wheat A and D genome donors, Triticum urartu and Aegilops tauschii,...

With respect to the maternally inherited large subunit of fraction I protein, Chen et al. (1) found that Triticum boeoticum and T. urartu had identical polypeptide patterns, and Aegilops speltoides had a different one identical with that of the tetraploid wheats. From this evidence they inferred that Ae. speltoides. but neither T. boeoticum nor T. urartu, could have been the maternal parent of ...