In NAKTASHIF worlds:Gardens, farms and human-associated habitats
Approved version OWNER-REVIEW-20261108T083326770 · last approved 8 November 2026
Names from folk tradition, kept apart from the scientific names.
Archaeological evidence shows domesticated emmer wheat first appearing in the northern Levant about 10,000 years ago, then in the southern Levant and elsewhere in the Fertile Crescent. Bread wheat itself was likely formed in the south Caspian region and soon spread to become a staple food of humanity.
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Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, family Poaceae) is a young hexaploid species (2n = 42) formed about 8,500–9,000 years ago by hybridization between a domesticated tetraploid wheat and the goatgrass Aegilops tauschii. No true wild form is known; feral forms occur.
