Evolution of Wild Emmer and Wheat Improvement

This book is about the contribution to evolutionary theory and agricultural technology of one of humankind''s most dramatic imitations of the evolu­ tionary process, namely crop domestication, as exemplified by the progenitor of wheat, Triticum dicoccoides. This species is a major model organism and it has been studied at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, since 1979. The domesticati...