Editing Einkorn (section)

== As a resource for plant breeding ==

Einkorn is the source of many potential introgressions for immunity – [[Nikolai Vavilov]] called it an "accumulator of complex immunities."<ref name="Zaharieva 2014">{{cite journal |year=2014 |issue=3 |publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC |last1=Zaharieva |first1=Maria |last2=Monneveux |first2=Philippe |pages=677–706 |volume=61 |s2cid=16551824 |doi=10.1007/s10722-014-0084-7 |journal=Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution |issn=0925-9864 |eissn=1573-5109 |title=Cultivated einkorn wheat (''Triticum monococcum'' L. subsp. ''monococcum''): the long life of a founder crop of agriculture}}</ref> ''T. monococcum'' is the source of ''Sr21'', a [[stem rust resistance gene]] which has been [[introgressed]] into [[hexaploid wheat |hexaploid]] worldwide.<ref name = "Concepts-and-Methods" >{{cite book |last1=Roelfs |first1=Alan P. |last2=Singh |first2=R. P. |last3=Saari |first3=E. E. | title=Rust diseases of wheat : concepts and methods of disease management |publisher=[[CIMMYT]] (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) |publication-place=Mexico, D.F |date=1992 |isbn=968-6127-47-X |oclc=26827677 |page=81}}</ref> It is also the source of ''Yr34'', a [[plant disease resistance gene |resistance gene]] for [[wheat yellow rust |yellow rust]].<ref name="Locate rust resistance gene donated from Einkorn">{{cite journal |journal=Euphytica |issue=11 |year=2022 |last=Baranwal |volume=218 |first=Deepak |title=Genetic and genomic approaches for breeding rust resistance in wheat |s2cid=252973250 |doi=10.1007/s10681-022-03111-y |doi-access=free}}</ref>

The salt-tolerance feature of ''T. monococcum'' has been bred into [[durum]] wheat.<ref>{{ cite web |url = https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120311150717.htm |title = World Breakthrough On Salt-Tolerant Wheat |publisher=ScienceDaily |date = March 11, 2012 }}</ref>