Oriental Wheat

(Triticum turanicum)

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Description

The grain turanicum , eastern wheat or wheat Khorasan ( Triticum turanicum Jakubz., 1947 ) is a wheat tetraploid. The generic name for wheat Khorasan , comes from the name of the region of Iranian where it was described for the first time, in 1921 , and where even now it is cultivated.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Poales
Family:Poaceae
Genus:Triticum
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