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Also Known As Triticum

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Golden wheat stalks in a field, shown in close-up with rolling hills and a blue sky in the background.
Two glasses of thick yellow boza topped with roasted chickpeas and cinnamon, with cinnamon sticks and extra chickpeas scattered on a light surface.
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Harvesting machines moving across a golden wheat field under a cloudy sky.
combine funneling harvested wheat
Close-up of mature golden wheat (Triticum aestivum) heads and stalks densely packed in a field.
Close-up of a rye stalk with a dark ergot fungus growing on it, set against a blurred green field background.
Golden wheat field stretches across rolling hills under a blue sky with scattered clouds in the Palouse Valley, Washington State.
Farm in Saskatchewan
Follow wheat berries from field to grain elevator as migrant laborers use a combine to harvest the crop
Observe the underground sequence of the germination, growth, and appearance of leaves in wheat
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Farrer, William James
William James Farrer
Australian agriculturalist
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Elvin Charles Stakman
American plant pathologist

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