Talk:Wheat

Effects of climate change on wheat production
There is new content about the effects of climate change on wheat production here: Effects of climate change on agriculture (was put together by ). I am wondering how best to mention something about climate change impacts in this article and then to link across to the other article? EMsmile (talk) 13:10, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

wheat IUCN red list status
someone add the iucn red list status of wheat, it may be useful. I myself do not know the iucn red list ststus of wheat. is it LC or EW?103.28.246.219 (talk) 10:49, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Is it really necessary?103.28.246.219 (talk) 10:52, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

I see that this article refers to genus triticum. IUCN extinction status can only be aplied for species. sorry for the inconvenience, ignore this topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.28.246.224 (talk) 07:09, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Flower plant or not
Is yhe wheat grow flower 103.174.84.27 (talk) 02:49, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes. It is an Angiosperm. — Invasive Spices (talk) 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Latin names for all varieties mentioned?
Could someone please add latin names and links for each variety of wheat mentioned in this article? I've been searching occasionally for several days to find out if turkey red and other hard red winter wheats are diploid, tetraploid or hexaploid, whether they are einkorn or emmer or something else. So far I've failed utterly. It would help me, and I think other readers, if every variety mentioned would be accompanied by a latin name in parentheses with a link to another web page that provided that information.

I know that there are at least two latin names for many varieties of wheat. There are now so many articles on wheat that it might be wise to pick one of the systems of nomenclature as primary for Wikipedia and use that one in the myriad wheat articles.

I am merely a poor hapless, confused student, who grew up on farm fed by a modern variety of turkey red.

Thanks for anything you can do to help me better understand my roots. DavidMCEddy (talk) 22:18, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Origins
I'm noting this here rather than with cleanup tags because I don't want to spike the GA nomination, but this section could use a bit of work. Many of the references are outdated or unscholarly, which combined there's some mixing up of varieties (e.g. emmer vs. one-grained vs. two-grained einkown) and terminology (e.g. genetic centre of diversity vs. earliest cultivation vs. earliest evidence of domestication) has produced a lot of wonky dates.


 * Distinguished 2 einkorn species and 2 emmer species. The article doesn't use "center of diversity" (or "centre..")? I cited some books and did some checking; the dates I saw were fine. The non-scholarly sources used broadly seem appropriate, e.g. Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, or newspapers for current food habits. Obviously if you know different then feel free to tweak and cite afresh.

It would also make more sense to me to introduce the different species of wheat and their wild progenitors before explaining the history of cultivation/domestication, because it's pretty hard to understand what's being talked to otherwise.


 * Swapped the order of the Phylogeny and History sections, seems fairly reasonable (though I note that the Phylogeny bit's talk of evolution in farmers' fields would suggest putting the History first). Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

I would like to tackle this if I can get round to it, but if anyone else beats me to it, be my guest. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 18:03, 4 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Taxonomy of wheat and Founder crops are both more up to date, we could probably reuse some text from there. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:09, 5 October 2023 (UTC)


 * All right, I've bolted in some bits from Founder crops, maybe it's better. Doesn't seem much newer actually. I've had a go at using material from Taxonomy of wheat, and you know what? It's full of mistakes too, only different ones ... Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:59, 5 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your work trying to improve Wikipedia. DavidMCEddy (talk) 00:02, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * That's very kind of you, thank you for the encouragement. Chiswick Chap (talk) 04:58, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The early sites and dates mentioned are correct now, which is what I mainly meant by out of date. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:15, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Super. Thanks for your inputs. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:51, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * What do you think about splitting the origins section? To me phylogeny and taxonomy belong in their own section, and as you say they also cover later varieties. Meanwhile the history section is getting quite long and could be usefully split into sections on origins/domestication, spread, history of cultivation practices, etc. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 09:08, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * OK. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:33, 6 October 2023 (UTC)