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Wheat is a superb model organism for the evolutionary theory of allopolyploid speciation, adaptation, and domestication in plants, and is also the most important food crop for humans. Its domestication, primarily in modern breeding practices, led to its genetic erosion and increasing susceptibility and vulnerability to environmental stresses, pests, and diseases. Hence, its future genetic improvement as a high-quality nutritional food is paramount for feeding the ever-increasing human population. The best hope for crop improvement is to utilize the adaptive genetic resources of the wheat progenitor, wild emmer Triticum dicoccoides, and other wheat relatives. Here, I review wild wheat evolution focusing on wild emmer wheat: its evolutionary history, domestication, population genetics, genetic organization, and genetic resources for wheat improvement.

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I thank all of my colleagues at the Institute of Evolution in Israel and worldwide for their extensive collaborations on wild emmer wheat. I thank Robin Barasch-Permut, Esther Kabuliansky, and Michael Margulis for editing and technical assistance. Finally, I extend my deepest gratitude to the Ancell Teicher Research Foundation for Genetics and Molecular Evolution for supporting my wild emmer wheat investigation since 1985.

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Nevo, E. (2011). Triticum. In: Kole, C. (eds) Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14228-4_10

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