Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a grass that is cultivated around the world. Globally, it is the second-largest cereal crop, tied with maize; the third being rice. Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour, livestock feed, and as an ingredient in the brewing of beer. Wheat is also planted strictly as a forage crop for livestock and for production of hay. See also Category:Wheat

Species

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  Triticum aestivum (Common wheat)
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  Triticum compactum
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  Triticum dicoccum (Emmer wheat)
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  Triticum durum (Durum wheat)
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  Triticum monococcum (Einkorn wheat)
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  Triticum spelta (Spelt)
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  Triticum turgidum
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  Triticum polonicum
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  Triticum aestivum X Thinopyrum intermedium
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  Kamut

Ears

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  wheat flowers
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  wheat flowers
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  wheat flowers (Wheat spikelet with the three anthers sticking out)
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  Interspecific wheat hybrid heads
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  Wheat ear
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  Spikelets of a hulled wheat, einkorn
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  Wheat ear at the late milk
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Fields

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  Wheat field in April in Burgundy, France
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  wheat field
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  Wheat in Ávila, Spain
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  Wheat in Hula Valley, Israel
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  Wheat board, Northern Hungary, the background of the mountains Cserhat
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    Wheat field in Île-de-France

Production

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  Hand harvest in Slovenia
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  Hand harvest in India
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  The combine Claas Lexion 584 06833 is threshing the wheat. Then he crushed the chaff and blows it across the field.
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  The combine Claas Lexion 584 06833 mows, threshes, shreddes the chaff and blows it across the field. In the meantime he loads the threshed wheat at full speed on a trailer.
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  Wheat harvest on the Palouse, Idaho, United States
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  Breeding salt tolerat wheat
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  Combine view from the cabin
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  Worldwide wheat production
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  Sheaved and stooked wheat
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Food products

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  Wheatberries
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  Bulgur
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  Flour
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  Puffed wheat
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  Semolina
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  bread

Disease

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  Wheat infected with barley yellow dwarf virus
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  Wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticinia) on wheat.
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  Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis) on wheat.
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  severe symptoms of scab (right)
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  Close-up of stem rust (Puccinia graminis) on wheat.
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  curl mite

In art

See also: Wheat in art

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  Gustave Courbet: Die Kornsieberinnen, 1855
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  Vincent van Gogh: Wheat Field with Crows, 1890
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  August Haake:Feld mit Kornhocken, 1911-1914
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  Utensil made of dry wheat branches for loaves of bread
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  Hungarian traditional folk art: harvest wreath, spun fresh wheat, with Hungarian flag tricolor, "palóc" style
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  Hungarian traditional folk art: harvest wreath, spun fresh wheat, with the Hungarian coat-arms
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  Hungarian traditional folk art: harvest wreath, spun fresh wheat
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See also

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  Cereal
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  Food ingredients