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Common wheat
| Common wheat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Triticum |
| Species: | T. aestivum
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| Binomial name | |
| Triticum aestivum | |
| Synonyms | |
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Common wheat (Triticum aestivum), also known as bread wheat, is a cultivated wheat species.[1][2][3][4][5] About 95% of wheat produced worldwide is common wheat;[6] it is the most widely grown of all crops and the cereal with the highest monetary yield.[7]
- ^ Brenchley, R.; Spannagl, M.; Pfeifer, M.; Barker, G. L.; d'Amore, R.; Allen, A. M.; McKenzie, N.; Kramer, M.; Kerhornou, A.; Bolser, D.; Kay, S.; Waite, D.; Trick, M.; Bancroft, I.; Gu, Y.; Huo, N.; Luo, M. C.; Sehgal, S.; Gill, B.; Kianian, S.; Anderson, O.; Kersey, P.; Dvorak, J.; McCombie, W. R.; Hall, A.; Mayer, K. F.; Edwards, K. J.; Bevan, M. W.; Hall, N. (2012). "Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole-genome shotgun sequencing". Nature. 491 (7426): 705–10. Bibcode:2012Natur.491..705B. doi:10.1038/nature11650. PMC 3510651. PMID 23192148.
- ^ Bonjean, Alain P. and William J. Angus, ed. (2001). The world wheat book: a history of wheat breeding. Andover, Massachusetts, US: Intercept. p. 1131. ISBN 978-1-898298-72-4. Excellent resource for 20th century plant breeding.
- ^ Caligari, P.D.S. and P.E. Brandham, ed. (2001). Wheat taxonomy: the legacy of John Percival. London: The Linnean Society of London. p. 190.
- ^ Heyne, E.G., ed. (1987). Wheat and wheat improvement. Madison, Wis., US: American Society of Agronomy. p. 765. ISBN 978-0-89118-091-3.
- ^ Zohary, Daniel; Hopf, Maria (2000). Domestication of Old World plants: the origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). p. 316. ISBN 978-0-19-850356-9. Standard reference for evolution and early history.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
10.1126/science.1251788was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Triticum aestivum (bread wheat)". Kew Gardens. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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