Wheat

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[edit]

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

Ears[edit]

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

Fields[edit]

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

Production[edit]

Hand harvest in Slovenia
Hand harvest in India
The combine Claas Lexion 584 06833 is threshing the wheat. Then he crushed the chaff and blows it across the field.
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.
Wheat harvest on the Palouse, Idaho, United States
Breeding salt tolerat wheat
Combine view from the cabin
Worldwide wheat production
infographic
Sheaved and stooked wheat

Food products[edit]

Wheatberries
Bulgur
Flour
Puffed wheat
Semolina
bread

Disease[edit]

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

In art[edit]

See also: Wheat in art

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