Editing Einkorn (section)

== Taxonomy and phylogeny ==

{{see also|Wheat#Genetics and breeding|Wheat taxonomy}}

Cultivated Einkorn was described as a taxon, ''Triticum monococcum'', by [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1753. Later descriptions by other taxonomists, now treated as synonyms, include ''Triticum pubescens'' by [[Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein|von Bieberstein]] in 1800; ''Triticum hornemanii'' by Clementi in 1818; ''Nivieria monococcum'' <!--by Scr.?--> in 1841; ''Triticum vulgare monococcum'' by [[Friedrich Georg Christoph Alefeld|Alefeld]] in 1866; ''Triticum monococcum subsp. cereale'' by [[Albert Thellung]] in 1918.<ref name="Zaharieva 2014"/> Wild Einkorn is known either as ''Triticum monococcum'' subsp. ''aegilopoides'' or as ''Triticum boeoticum''.<ref name="Zaharieva 2014"/>

[[File:Polyploid wheat origins.svg|thumb|center|upright=2.5|Einkorn is related to emmer and bread wheat but is not a hybrid.<ref name="Golovnina-2007"/>]]

Wild and domesticated einkorns are [[diploid]] wheats. Unlike [[emmer]] and [[bread wheat]], which were formed by [[Hybrid (biology)|hybridisation]] with ''[[Aegilops]]'' goatgrasses, einkorn is not a hybrid.<ref name="Golovnina-2007">{{cite journal |last1=Golovnina |first1=K. A. |last2=Glushkov |first2=S. A. |last3=Blinov |first3=A. G. |last4=Mayorov |first4=V. I. |last5=Adkison |first5=L. R. |last6=Goncharov |first6=N. P. |title=Molecular phylogeny of the genus Triticum L |journal=[[Plant Systematics and Evolution]] |volume=264 |issue=3–4 |date=2007-02-12 |doi=10.1007/s00606-006-0478-x |pages=195–216 |bibcode=2007PSyEv.264..195G |s2cid=39102602 }}</ref>