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{{Refimprove|date=September 2008}}'''Theology''' is the study of the existence or attributes of a [[deity|god]] or gods, or more generally the study of [[religion]] or [[spirituality]]. It is sometimes contrasted with [[religious studies]]: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective (e.g., a perspective of commitment to that religion), and religious studies as the study of religion from an external (e.g., a [[secularity|secular]]) perspective.<ref>{{cite book | last = Brodd |first = Jefferey | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = World Religions | publisher = Saint Mary's Press | year = 2003 | location = Winona, MN | pages = | url = | doi = |id = | isbn = 978-0-88489-725-5 }}</ref> Theologians use various forms of analysis and argument ([[philosophy|philosophical]], [[ethnography|ethnographic]], [[history|historical]], and others) to help [[understanding|understand]], [[explanation|explain]], test, [[critic#critique|critique]], defend or promote any of myriad [[List of religious topics|religious topics]]. It might be undertaken to help the theologian:
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* understand more truly his or her own religious [[tradition]],<ref>See, e.g., [[Daniel L. Migliore]], ''Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology'' 2nd ed.(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)</ref>
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* understand more truly another religious tradition,<ref>See, e.g., Michael S. Kogan, 'Toward a Jewish Theology of Christianity' in ''The Journal of Ecumenical Studies'' 32.1 (Winter 1995), 89-106; available online at [http://www.icjs.org/scholars/kogan.html]</ref>
|regnum = [[Plantae]]
* make [[comparative religion|comparisons]] between religious traditions,<ref>See, e.g., David Burrell, ''Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions'' (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994)</ref>
|unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
* defend or [[apologetics|justify]] a religious tradition,
|unranked_classis = [[Monocots]]
* facilitate reform of a particular tradition,<ref>See, e.g., John Shelby Spong, ''Why Christianity Must Change or Die'' (New York: Harper Collins, 2001)</ref>
|unranked_ordo = [[Commelinids]]
* assist in the [[proselytism|propagation]] of a religious tradition,<ref>See, e.g., Duncan Dormor et al (eds), ''Anglicanism, the Answer to Modernity'' (London: Continuum, 2003)</ref> or
|ordo = [[Poales]]
* draw on the resources of a tradition to address some present situation or need,<ref>See, e.g., Timothy Gorringe, ''Crime'', Changing Society and the Churches Series (London:SPCK, 2004)</ref>
|familia = [[Poaceae]]
among other things.
|subfamilia = [[Pooideae]]
|tribus = [[Triticeae]]
|genus = '''''Triticum'''''
|genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = ''[[Common wheat|T. aestivum]]''<br />
''T. aethiopicum''<br />
''T. araraticum''<br />
''[[einkorn wheat|T. boeoticum]]''<br />
''T. carthlicum''<br />
''[[Common is wheat|T. compactum]]''<br />
''[[Emmer|T. dicoccoides]]''<br />
''[[Emmer|T. dicoccon]]''<br />
''[[durum|T. durum]]''<br />
''T. ispahanicum''<br />
''T. karamyschevii''<br />
''T. macha''<br />
''T. militinae''<br />
''[[Einkorn|T. monococcum]]''<br />
''T. polonicum''<br />
''[[Spelt|T. spelta]]''<br />
''[[common wheat|T. sphaerococcum]]''<br />
''[[Triticum timopheevii|T. timopheevii]]''<br />
''T. turanicum''<br />
''T. turgidum''<br />
''T. urartu''<br />
''T. vavilovii''<br />
''T. zhukovskyi''<br />
<small>References:<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=42236 ITIS 42236] 2002-09-22</small>
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'''Wheat''' (''Triticum'' spp.)<ref name=Belderok>Belderok, Bob & Hans Mesdag & Dingena A. Donner. (2000) ''Bread-Making Quality of Wheat''. Springer. p.3. ISBN 0-7923-6383-3.</ref> is a worldwide cultivated [[Poaceae|grass]] from the [[Levant]] area of the [[Middle East]]. Globally, after [[maize]], wheat is the second most-produced food among the [[cereal|cereal crops]]; [[rice]] ranks third.<ref>{{Citation
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</ref> Wheat [[Caryopsis|grain]] is a [[staple food]] used to make [[flour]] for leavened, flat and steamed [[bread]]s; [[cookie]]s, [[cake]]s, [[breakfast cereal]], [[pasta]], [[juice]], [[noodles]] and [[couscous]];<ref>Cauvain, Stanley P. & Cauvain P. Cauvain. (2003) ''Bread Making''. CRC Press. p. 540. ISBN 1-85573-553-9.</ref> and for [[fermentation (food)|fermentation]] to make [[beer]],<ref>Palmer, John J. (2001) ''How to Brew''. Defenestrative Pub Co. p. 233. ISBN 0-9710579-0-7.</ref> [[alcohol]], [[vodka]]<ref>Neill, Richard. (2002) ''Booze: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century''. Octopus Publishing Group - Cassell Illustrated. p. 112. ISBN 1-84188-196-1.</ref> or [[biofuel]].<ref>''Department of Agriculture Appropriations for 1957: Hearings ... 84th Congress. 2d Session''. ''United States. Congress. House. Appropriations''. 1956. p. 242.</ref> Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a [[Fodder|forage crop]] for [[livestock]], and the [[straw]] can be used as [[fodder]] for livestock or as a construction material for roofing [[thatch]].<ref>Smith, Albert E. (1995) ''Handbook of Weed Management Systems''. Marcel Dekker. p. 411. ISBN 0-8247-9547-4.</ref><ref name=CVDE>Bridgwater, W. & Beatrice Aldrich. (1966) ''The Columbia-Viking Desk Encyclopedia''. Columbia University. p. 1959.</ref>


Although wheat supplies much of the world's dietary protein and food supply, as many as one in every 100 to 200 people has [[Coeliac disease]], a condition which results from an immune system response to a protein found in wheat: [[gluten]] (based on figures for the [[United States]]).<ref>{{cite journal
The word "theology" has [[ancient Greek|classical Greek]] origins, but it was taken up in both Greek and [[Latin]] forms by Christian authors, and it is the history of the term in Christian contexts, particularly in the Latin West, that lies behind most contemporary usage, even though the term can now be used to speak of reasoned discourse within and about a variety of different religious traditions.<ref>See, for example, ''Contemporary Jewish Theology: A Reader'', edited by Elliott Dorff and Louis Newman (Oxford: OUP, 1998), Ignaz Goldziher's ''Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law'' (Princeton University Press, 1981), Roger Jackson and John J. Makransky's ''Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars'' (London: Curzon, 2000), and Jose Pereira, ''Hindu Theology'' (New Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan, 1991)</ref>
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== History of the term ==
== History ==
Wheat originated in [[Southwest Asia]] in the area known as the [[Fertile crescent]]. The genetic relationships between wild and domesticated populations of both [[einkorn]] and [[emmer]] wheat indicate that the most likely site of domestication is near [[Diyarbakır]] in [[Turkey]].<ref>Jorge Dubcovsky and Jan Dvorak, "Genome Plasticity a Key Factor in the Success of Polyploid Wheat Under Domestication", Science 316 [Issue 5833], p. 1862, 29 June 2007 </ref>
:''See the main article on the [[History of theology]], particularly for the history of Jewish, Christian and Islamic theology.


Wild wheats were domesticated as part of the [[origins of agriculture]] in the Fertile Crescent. Cultivation and repeated harvesting and sowing of the grains of wild grasses led to the [[domestication]] of wheat through selection of mutant forms with tough ears that remained intact during harvesting, larger grains, and a tendency for the spikelets to stay on the stalk until harvested. <ref>"Seeking Agriculture's Ancient Roots", Science 316 [Issue 5853], p. 1830, 29 June 2007 </ref> Because of the loss of seed dispersal mechanisms, domesticated wheats have limited capacity to propagate in the wild.<ref name=Smith>Smith, C. Wayne. (1995) ''Crop Production''. John Wiley and Sons. pp. 60-62. ISBN 0-471-07972-3.</ref>
The word ''theology'' comes from late middle English, from French ''théologie'', from Latin ''theologia'', from [[Greek language|Greek]] θεολογία, ''theologia'', from θεός, ''theos'' or [[God]] + λόγος or ''logos'', "[[word]]s," "[[saying]]s," "[[discourse]]," or "[[reason]]" ( + suffix ια, ''ia'', "state of," "property of," "place of"). The Greek word can be literally translated as "talk about God or the divine," but the meaning of the word shifted as it was used (first in Greek and then in Latin) in European Christian thought in the Patristic period, the [[Middle Ages]] and [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], and then taken up more widely.


The exact timing of the first appearance of domesticated wheats is currently uncertain, but is either in the [[PPNA]] period (9800-8800 cal BC) or the early-mid [[PPNB]] (8800-7500 cal BC). Domesticated [[einkorn]] and [[emmer]] wheat has been identified at three PPNA sites in the northern [[Levant]], Iraq ed-Dubb, [[Jericho]] and Tell Aswad, but both the dating and the domesticated status of these cereals is disputed.<ref>Colledge, S., Conolly, J., and Shennan, S. 2004. Archaeobotantical Evidence for the Spread of Farming in the Eastern Mediterranean. Current Anthropology 45:S35-S58; Nesbitt, M. 2002. "When and where did domesticated cereals first occur in southwest Asia?," in The dawn of farming in the Near East. Edited by R. Cappers and S. Bottema, pp. 113-132. Berlin: Ex Oriente.</ref> Domesticated wheats (and other Neolithic [[founder crops]]) are unambiguously present at early-mid PPNB sites in the northern Levant, such as [[Ain Ghazal]], [[Abu Hureyra]] and [[Tell Aswad]], and in southeast Turkey at [[Cafer Höyük]] and [[Çayönü]].<ref>Colledge, S. & Conolly, J. 2007. A review and synthesis of the evidence for the origins of farming on Cyprus and Crete. Pp. 53-74 in The Origins and Spread of Domestic Crops in Southwest Asia and Europe. Colledge, S. & Conolly, J. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. </ref> As a round figure, it is correct to say that wheats have been domesticated for about 10,000 years.
[[Image:Averroes.jpg|thumb|225px|[[Averroes]], like many important Muslims who wrote about God, was a writer on [[Islamic theology]] or "[[Kalam]]." His school of [[Averroism]] had a significant influence on Christian theology.]]
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The cultivation of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent during the [[Neolithic|Neolithic period]], reaching the Aegean by 8500 cal BC and the Indian subcontinent by 6000 cal BC. By 5,000 years ago, wheat had reached [[Ethiopia]], [[Great Britain]], [[Ireland]] and [[Spain]]. A millennium later it reached [[China]].<ref name=Smith /> Claims have been made for independent domestication of wheat outside the fertile crescent, but these lack evidence of the presence of wild wheats or of early domesticated wheat.<ref>Daniel Zohary, Maria Hopf (2000). Domestication of plants in the Old World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref>
* The term θεολογια ''theologia'' is used in classical Greek literature, with the meaning "discourse on the gods or [[cosmology]]." The first known use is by [[Plato]] in [[The Republic (Plato)|The Republic]], Book ii, Ch. 18.<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057;query=entry%3D%2348216;layout=;loc=qeolo%2Fgia1 Lidell and Scott's ''Greek-English Lexicon']'.</ref>


Three thousand years ago wheat was grown in the souther oregon peninsula agricultural cultivation with horse-drawn plows increased cereal grain production, as did the use of [[seed drill]]s to replace broadcast sowing in the 18th century. Yields of wheat continued to increase, as new land came under cultivation and with improved agricultural husbandry involving the use of [[fertilizer]]s, [[threshing machines]] and reaping machines, [[tractor]]-drawn cultivators and planters, and varieties adapted to intensive cultivation (see [[green revolution]] and [[Norin 10 wheat]]).<ref>[http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323362&no_na_tran=1 Ears of plenty: The story of wheat], [[The Economist]], December 24th 2005, pp. 28-30</ref>
* [[Aristotle]] divided theoretical philosophy into ''mathematike'', ''physike'' and ''theologike'', with the latter corresponding roughly to [[metaphysics]], which, for Aristotle, included discussion of the nature of the divine.<ref>[http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/mirror/classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.6.vi.html Aristotle, ''Metaphysics'', Book Epsilon.]</ref>


== Genetics ==
* Drawing on Greek sources, the [[Latin]] writer [[Marcus Terentius Varro|Varro]] influentially distinguished three forms of such discourse: mythical (concerning the myths of the Greek gods), rational (philosophical analysis of the gods and of cosmology) and civil (concerning the rites and duties of public religious observance).<ref>As cited by Augustine, [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120106.htm ''City of God'', Book 6], ch.5.</ref>
[[Image:usdaeinkorn1.jpg|thumb|120px|Spikelets of a hulled wheat, [[einkorn]]]]
Wheat genetics is more complicated than that of most other domesticated species. Some wheat species are [[diploid]], with two sets of chromosomes, but many are stable [[polyploidy|polyploids]], with four sets of chromosomes ([[tetraploid]]) or six ([[hexaploid]]).<ref name=Hancock>Hancock, James F. (2004) ''Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species''. CABI Publishing. ISBN 0-85199-685-X.</ref>
* [[Einkorn]] wheat (''T. monococcum'') is diploid.<ref name=Belderok />
* Most tetraploid wheats (e.g. [[emmer]] and [[durum|durum wheat]]) are derived from wild emmer, ''T. dicoccoides''. Wild emmer is the result of a hybridization between two diploid wild grasses, ''T. urartu'' and a wild goatgrass such as ''Aegilops searsii'' or ''[[Aegilops speltoides|Ae. speltoides]]''. The hybridization that formed wild emmer occurred in the wild, long before domestication.<ref name=Hancock />
* Hexaploid wheats evolved in farmers' fields. Either domesticated emmer or durum wheat hybridized with yet another wild diploid grass (''[[Aegilops tauschii]]'') to make the [[hexaploid]] wheats, [[spelt]] wheat and [[common wheat|bread wheat]].<ref name=Hancock />


== Plant breeding ==
* [[Christian]] writers, working within the [[Hellenistic]] mold, began to use the term to describe their studies. It appears once in some [[biblical manuscript]]s, in the heading to the [[book of Revelation]]: ''apokalypsis ioannoy toy theologoy'', "the revelation of John the ''theologos''." There, however, the word refers not to John the "theologian" in the modern English sense of the word but&mdash;using a slightly different sense of the root ''logos'', meaning not "rational discourse" but "word" or "message,"&mdash;one who speaks the words of God, ''logoi toy theoy''.<ref>This title appears quite late in the manuscript tradition for the Book of Revelation: the two earliest citations provided in David Aune's ''Word Biblical Commentary 52: Revelation 1-5'' (Dallas: Word Books, 1997) are both 11th century - Gregory 325/Hoskier 9 and Gregory 1006/Hoskier 215; the title was however in circulation by the 6th century - see Allen Brent ‘John as theologos: the imperial mysteries and the Apocalypse’, ''Journal for the Study of the New Testament'' 75 (1999), 87-102.</ref>
{{main|physiological and molecular wheat breeding}}
[[Image:WheatPennsylvania1943.jpg|thumb|Wheat]]
[[Image:Wheat P1210892.jpg|thumb|Wheat]]
[[Image:Wheat blue sky2.JPG|thumb|Wheat]]
In traditional agricultural systems wheat populations often consist of [[landraces]], informal farmer-maintained populations that often maintain high levels of morphological diversity. Although landraces of wheat are no longer grown in Europe and North America, they continue to be important elsewhere. The origins of formal wheat breeding lie in the nineteenth century, when single line varieties were created through selection of seed from a single plant noted to have desired properties. Modern wheat breeding developed in the first years of the twentieth century and was closely linked to the development of [[Mendelian genetics]]. The standard method of breeding inbred wheat cultivars is by crossing two lines using hand emasculation, then selfing or inbreeding the progeny. Selections are ''identified'' (shown to have the genes responsible for the varietal differences) ten or more generations before release as a variety or cultivar.<ref name=Bajaj />


F1 hybrid wheat cultivars should not be confused with wheat cultivars deriving from standard plant breeding. [[Heterosis]] or hybrid vigor (as in the familiar F1 hybrids of maize) occurs in common (hexaploid) wheat, but it is difficult to produce seed of hybrid cultivars on a commercial scale as is done with [[maize]] because wheat flowers are complete and normally [[Self-pollination|self-pollinate]].<ref name=Bajaj>Bajaj, Y. P. S. (1990) ''Wheat''. Springer. pp. 161-63. ISBN 3-540-51809-6.</ref> Commercial hybrid wheat seed has been produced using chemical hybridizing agents, plant growth regulators that selectively interfere with pollen development, or naturally occurring cytoplasmic male sterility systems. Hybrid wheat has been a limited commercial success in Europe (particularly [[France]]), the USA and South Africa.<ref>Basra, Amarjit S. (1999) ''Heterosis and Hybrid Seed Production in Agronomic Crops''. Haworth Press. pp. 81-82. ISBN 1-56022-876-8.</ref>
* Other Christian writers used this term with several different ranges of meaning.
** Some Latin authors, such as [[Tertullian]] and [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]], followed Varro's threefold usage, described above.<ref>See Augustine reference above, and Tertullian, [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.iv.viii.ii.i.html ''Ad Nationes'', Book 2], ch.1.</ref>
** In [[Church Fathers|Patristic]] Greek sources, ''theologia'' could refer narrowly to devout and inspired knowledge of, and teaching about, the essential nature of God.<ref>[[Gregory of Nazianzus]] uses the word in this sense in his fourth-century [http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-42.htm#P4178_1277213 ''Theological Orations'']; after his death, he was called "the Theologian" at the [[Council of Chalcedon]] and thereafter in [[Eastern Orthodoxy]]&mdash;either because his ''Orations'' were seen as crucial examples of this kind of theology, or in the sense that he was (like the author of the Book of Revelation) seen as one who was an inspired preacher of the words of God. (It is unlikely to mean, as claimed in the [http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-07/Npnf2-07-41.htm#P4162_1255901 ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers''] introduction to his ''Theological Orations'', that he was a defender of the divinity of Christ the Word.) See John McGukin, ''Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2001), p.278.</ref>
** In some [[medieval]] Greek and Latin sources, ''theologia'' (in the sense of "an account or record of the ways of God") could refer simply to the [[Bible]].<ref>[[Image:AlbertusMagnus.jpg|thumb|right|[[Albert the Great]], patron saint of Roman Catholic Theologians]]See e.g., [[Hugh of St. Victor]], ''Commentariorum in Hierarchiam Coelestem'', Expositio to Book 9: "theologia, id est, divina Scriptura" (in [[Jacques Paul Migne|Migne's]] ''[[Patrologia Latina]]'' vol.175, 1091C).</ref>
** In [[scholasticism|scholastic]] Latin sources, the term came to denote the rational study of the [[doctrine]]s of the Christian religion, or (more precisely) the academic [[discipline]] which investigated the coherence and implications of the language and claims of the Bible and of the theological tradition (the latter often as represented in [[Peter Lombard]]'s ''[[Sentences]]'', a book of extracts from the Church Fathers).<ref>See the title of [[Peter Abelard]]'s [http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/resources/abelard/Theologia_christiana.txt ''Theologia Christiana''], and, perhaps most famously, of [[Thomas Aquinas]]' ''[[Summa Theologica]]''</ref>
* It is the last of these senses (theology as the rational study of the teachings of a religion or of several religions) that lies behind most modern uses (though the second&mdash;theology as a discussion specifically of a religion's or several religions' teachings about God&mdash;is also found in some academic and ecclesiastical contexts; see the article on [[Theology Proper]]).


The major breeding objectives include high grain yield, good quality, disease and insect resistance and tolerance to abiotic stresses include mineral, moisture and heat tolerance. The major diseases in temperate environments include Fusarium head blight, leaf rust and [[stem rust]], whereas in tropical areas [[spot blotch (wheat)]] (also known as Helminthosporium leaf blight).
* "Theology" can also now be used in a derived sense to mean "a system of theoretical principles; an (impractical or rigid) ideology."<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1989 edition, 'Theology' sense 1(d), and 'Theological' sense A.3; the earliest reference given is from the 1959 ''Times Literary Supplement'' 5 June 329/4: "The 'theological' approach to Soviet Marxism ... proves in the long run unsatisfactory."</ref>
See [[physiological and molecular wheat breeding]]


== Hulled versus free-threshing wheat ==
== Religions other than Christianity ==
[[Image:Wheat-haHula-ISRAEL2.JPG|thumb|A mature wheat field, in northern Israel]]
In academic theological circles, there is some debate as to whether theology is an activity peculiar to the Christian religion, such that the word "theology" should be reserved for [[Christian theology]], and other words used to name analogous discourses within other religious traditions.<ref>See, for example, the initial reaction of Dharmachari Nagapriya in his [http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol3/buddhisttheology.html review] of Jackson and Makrasnky's ''Buddhist Theology'' (London: Curzon, 2000) in ''Western Buddhist Review 3''</ref> It is seen by some to be a term only appropriate to the study of religions that worship a [[deity]] (a ''theos''), and to presuppose belief in the ability to speak and [[reason]] about this deity (in ''logia'')&mdash;and so to be less appropriate in religious contexts that are organized differently (religions without a deity, or that deny that such subjects can be studied logically). ("[[Hierology]]" has been proposed as an alternative, more generic term.<ref>E.g., by Count E. Goblet d'Alviella in 1908; see Alan H. Jones, ''Independence and Exegesis: The Study of Early Christianity in the Work of Alfred Loisy (1857-1940), Charles Guignebert (1857 [i.e. 1867]-1939), and Maurice Goguel (1880-1955)'' (Mohr Siebeck, 1983), p.194.</ref>)
The four wild species of wheat, along with the domesticated varieties [[einkorn]],<ref name=Potts>Potts, D. T. (1996) ''Mesopotamia Civilization: The Material Foundations'' Cornell University Press. p. 62. ISBN 0-8014-3339-8.</ref> [[emmer]]<ref>Nevo, Eviatar & A. B. Korol & A. Beiles & T. Fahima. (2002) ''Evolution of Wild Emmer and Wheat Improvement: Population Genetics, Genetic Resources, and Genome...''. Springer. p. 8. ISBN 3-540-41750-8.</ref> and [[spelt]],<ref>Vaughan, J. G. & P. A. Judd. (2003) ''The Oxford Book of Health Foods''. Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 0-19-850459-4.</ref> have hulls (in German, ''Spelzweizen''). This more primitive morphology consists of toughened glumes that tightly enclose the grains, and (in domesticated wheats) a semi-brittle rachis that breaks easily on threshing. The result is that when threshed, the wheat ear breaks up into spikelets. To obtain the grain, further processing, such as milling or pounding, is needed to remove the hulls or husks. In contrast, in free-threshing (or naked) forms such as durum wheat and common wheat, the glumes are fragile and the rachis tough. On threshing, the chaff breaks up, releasing the grains. Hulled wheats are often stored as spikelets because the toughened glumes give good protection against pests of stored grain.<ref name=Potts />


=== Analogous discourses ===
== Naming ==
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* Some academic inquiries within [[Buddhism]], dedicated to the rational investigation of a Buddhist understanding of the world, prefer the designation [[Buddhist philosophy]] to the term Buddhist theology, since Buddhism lacks the same conception of a ''theos''. Jose Ignacio Cabezon, who argues that the use of "theology" ''is'' appropriate, can only do so, he says, because "I take theology not to be restricted to discourse on God ... I take 'theology' not to be restricted to its etymological meaning. In that latter sense, Buddhism is of course ''a'' theological, rejecting as it does the notion of God."<ref>Jose Ignacio Cabezon, 'Buddhist Theology in the Academy' in Roger Jackson and John J. Makransky's ''Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars'' (London: Routledge, 1999), pp.25-52.</ref>
[[Image:Wheat in sack.jpg|thumb|Sack of wheat]]
There are many botanical classification systems used for wheat species, discussed in a separate article on [[Wheat taxonomy]]. The name of a wheat species from one information source may not be the name of a wheat species in another. Within a species, wheat cultivars are further classified by wheat breeders and farmers in terms of growing season, such as [[winter wheat]] vs. spring wheat,<ref name=CVDE /> by [[gluten]] content, such as hard wheat (high protein content) vs. soft wheat (high starch content), or by grain color (red, white or amber).


In [[British English]] wheat may be referred to as '''corn'''.<ref>
* Within [[Hindu philosophy]], there is a solid and ancient tradition of philosophical speculation on the nature of the universe, of God (termed "[[Brahman]]" in some schools of Hindu thought) and of the [[atman (Hinduism)|Atman]] (soul). The [[Sanskrit]] word for the various schools of Hindu philosophy is [[Darshana]] (meaning "view" or "viewpoint"). [[Vaishnavism|Vaishnava theology]] has been a subject of study for many devotees, philosophers and scholars in [[India]] for centuries, and in recent decades also has been taken on by a number of academic institutions in Europe, such as the [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]] and [[Bhaktivedanta College]].<ref>See Anna S. King, 'For Love of Krishna: Forty Years of Chanting' in Graham Dwyer and Richard J. Cole, ''The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change'' (London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006), pp.134-167: p.163, which describes developments in both institutions, and and speaks of Hare Krishna devotees 'studying Vaishnava theology and practice in mainstream universities.'</ref> ''See also: [[Krishnology]]''
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===Major cultivated species of wheat===
* [[Islamic theology|Islamic theological]] discussion that parallels Christian theological discussion is named "[[Kalam]]"; the Islamic analogue of Christian theological discussion would more properly be the investigation and elaboration of [[Sharia|Islamic law]], or "[[Fiqh]]." "Kalam ... does not hold the leading place in Muslim thought that theology does in Christianity. To find an equivalent for 'theology' in the Christian sense it is necessary to have recourse to several disciplines, and to the usul al-fiqh as much as to kalam." (L. Gardet)<ref>L. Gardet, '[http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ei2/kalam.htm Ilm al-kalam]' in ''The Encyclopedia of Islam'', ed. P.J. Bearman et al (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 1999).</ref> A number of [[Islamic theology|Muslim theologians]], such as [[Al-Kindi|Alkindus]], [[Al-Farabi|Alfarabi]], [[Avicenna]] (see [[Avicennism]]) and [[Averroes]] (see [[Averroism]]), have influenced the development of Christian theology significantly.
*'''[[Common wheat]]''' or '''Bread wheat''' — (''T. aestivum'') A [[ploidy|hexaploid]] species that is the most widely cultivated in the world.
*'''[[Durum]]''' — (''T. durum'') The only tetraploid form of wheat widely used today, and the second most widely cultivated wheat.
*'''[[Einkorn]]''' — (''T. monococcum'') A [[diploid]] species with wild and cultivated variants. Domesticated at the same time as emmer wheat, but never reached the same importance.
*'''[[Emmer]]''' — (''T. dicoccon'') A [[ploidy|tetraploid]] species, cultivated in ancient times but no longer in widespread use.
*'''[[Spelt]]''' — (''T. spelta'') Another hexaploid species cultivated in limited quantities.


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* In [[Judaism]], the historical absence of political authority has meant that most theological reflection has happened within the context of the Jewish community and [[synagogue]], rather than within specialized academic institutions. Nevertheless, Jewish theology historically has been very active and highly significant for Christian and Islamic theology. It is sometimes claimed, however, that the Jewish analogue of Christian theological discussion would more properly be [[Rabbinical]] discussion of [[Jewish law]] and [[Midrash|Jewish Biblical commentaries]].<ref>Randi Rashkover, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2096/is_4_49/ai_58621576 'A Call for Jewish Theology'], ''Crosscurrents'', Winter 1999, starts by saying, "Frequently the claim is made that, unlike Christianity, Judaism is a tradition of deeds and maintains no strict theological tradition. Judaism's fundamental beliefs are inextricable from their halakhic observance (that set of laws revealed to Jews by God), embedded and presupposed by that way of life as it is lived and learned."</ref>
[[Image:Wheat harvest.jpg|thumb|Wheat harvest on the Palouse.]]
[[Image:CombineWheat0654.JPG|thumb|Combining wheat in Hemingway, South Carolina.]]


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== Within academia ==
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Theology has a significantly problematic position within [[academia]] that is not shared by any other subject. Most [[universities]] founded before the modern era grew out of the church schools and [[monastic]] institutions of [[Western Europe]] during the [[High Middle Ages]] (e.g. [[University of Bologna]], [[Paris University]] and [[Oxford University]]). They were founded to train young men to serve the church in theology and [[law]] (often Church or [[Canon law (Catholic Church)|Canon law]]). At such universities, theological study was incomplete without theological practice, including [[preaching]], [[prayer]] and celebration of the [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]]. Ancient universities still maintain some of these links (e.g., having [[chapel]]s and [[chaplain]]s) and are more likely to teach theology than other institutions.


*'''[[Durum]]''' — Very hard, translucent, light colored grain used to make [[semolina]] flour for [[pasta]].
During the High Middle Ages, theology was therefore the ultimate subject at universities, being named "The Queen of the Sciences" and serving as the capstone to the [[trivium (education)|Trivium]] and [[Quadrivium]] that young men were expected to study. This meant that the other subjects (including [[Philosophy]]) existed primarily to help with theological thought.
*'''Hard Red Spring''' — Hard, brownish, high [[protein]] wheat used for bread and hard baked goods. Bread Flour and high gluten flours are commonly made from hard red spring wheat. It is primarily traded at the [[Minneapolis Grain Exchange]].
*'''[[Hard Red Winter]]''' — Hard, brownish, mellow high protein wheat used for bread, hard baked goods and as an adjunct in other flours to increase protein in pastry flour for pie crusts. Some brands of unbleached all-purpose flours are commonly made from hard red winter wheat alone. It is primarily traded by the [[Kansas City Board of Trade]]. One variety is known as "turkey red wheat", and was brought to Kansas by Mennonite immigrants from Russia.
*'''[[Soft Red Winter]]''' — Soft, low protein wheat used for cakes, pie crusts, biscuits, and muffins. Cake flour, pastry flour, and some self-rising flours with baking powder and salt added for example, are made from soft red winter wheat. It is primarily traded by the [[Chicago Board of Trade]].
*'''Hard White''' — Hard, light colored, opaque, chalky, medium protein wheat planted in dry, temperate areas. Used for bread and brewing.
*'''Soft White''' — Soft, light colored, very low protein wheat grown in temperate moist areas. Used for pie crusts and pastry. Pastry flour, for example, is sometimes made from soft white winter wheat.


Hard wheats are harder to process and red wheats may need bleaching. Therefore, soft and white wheats usually command higher prices than hard and red wheats on the commodities market.
With [[the Enlightenment]], universities began to change, teaching a wide range of subjects, especially in Germany, and from a [[Humanistic]] perspective. Theology was no longer the principal subject, and universities existed for many purposes, not only to train [[clergy]] for [[established church]]es. Theology thus became unusual as the only subject to maintain a confessional basis in otherwise secular establishments. However, this did not lead to the abandonment of theological study.


==As a food==
Eventually, several prominent colleges and universities were started in order to train Christian ministers in the U.S. [[Harvard]], [[Georgetown University]], [[Boston College]], [[Yale]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], and [[Brown University]] all began in order to train preachers in the Bible and theology. However, now some of these universities teach theology as a more academic rather than ministerial discipline.
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Raw wheat can be powdered into [[flour]]; germinated and dried creating [[malt]]; crushed and into cracked wheat; parboiled (or steamed), dried, crushed and de-branned into [[bulgur]]; or processed into [[semolina]], [[pasta]], or [[roux]]. Wheat is a major ingredient in such foods as [[bread]], [[porridge]], [[Cracker (food)|cracker]]s, [[biscuit]]s, [[Muesli]], [[pancake]]s, [[pies]], [[pastries]], [[cake]]s & [[cupcake]]s, [[cookie]]s, [[muffin]]s, [[Roll (food)|rolls]], [[doughnut]]s, [[gravy]], [[boza]] (a fermented beverage), and [[breakfast cereal]]s (e.g. [[Wheatena]], [[Cream of Wheat]], [[Shredded Wheat]], and [[Wheaties]]).


===Nutrition===
With the rise of Christian education, seminaries and Bible colleges have continued the original purpose of these universities. The Chicago Theological Union, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Creighton University Omaha, University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, the University of San Francisco, [[Criswell College]] in Dallas, Southern Seminary in Louisville, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Wheaton College and Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois, Dallas Theological Seminary, the [[London School of Theology]], and many other schools have influenced higher education in theology.
100 grams of hard red winter wheat contain about 12.6 grams of [[protein]], 1.5 grams of total [[fat]], 71 grams of [[carbohydrate]] (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary [[fiber]], and 3.2 mg of [[iron]] (17% of the daily requirement); the same weight of hard red spring wheat contains about 15.4 grams of [[protein]], 1.9 grams of total [[fat]], 68 grams of [[carbohydrate]] (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary [[fiber]], and 3.6 mg of [[iron]] (20% of the daily requirement).<ref name=USDA_ARS>[http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference], Release 19 (2006)</ref>


[[Gluten]], a protein found in wheat (and other [[Triticeae]]), cannot be tolerated by people with [[celiac disease]] (an autoimmune disorder in ~1% of Indo-European populations).<ref name=VanHeelWest>{{cite journal | author = van Heel D, West J | title = Recent advances in coeliac disease | url = http://gut.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/55/7/1037 | journal = Gut | volume = 55 | issue = 7 | pages = 1037–46 | year = 2006 | pmid = 16766754 | doi = 10.1136/gut.2005.075119}}</ref>
Theology is generally distinguished from other established [[academic disciplines]] that cover similar subject material (such as [[intellectual history]] or [[philosophy]]). Much of the debate concerning theology's place in the university or within a general higher education curriculum centers on whether theology's methods are appropriately theoretical and (broadly speaking) scientific or, on the other hand, whether theology requires a pre-commitment of faith by its practitioners.


Much of the carbohydrate fraction of wheat is [[starch]]. Wheat starch is an important commercial product of wheat, but second in economic value to wheat gluten.<ref>[International Starch Institute, [http://www.starch.dk/isi/starch/tm33www-wheat.htm TM 33-1www - ISI Technical Memorandum on Production of Wheat Starch], accessed August 11, 2008</ref> The principal parts of wheat flour are gluten and starch. These can be separated in a kind of home experiment, by mixing flour and water to form a small ball of dough, and kneading it gently while rinsing it in a bowl of water. The starch falls out of the dough and sinks to the bottom of the bowl, leaving behind a ball of gluten.
While theology often interacts with and draws upon the following, it is generally differentiated from:


===Health concerns===
* [[Comparative religion]]/[[Religious studies]]
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* [[Philosophy of religion]]
* [[History of religion]]s
* [[Psychology of religion]]
* [[Sociology of religion]]
* [[Anthropology of religion]]


Roughly 1% of the population[http://www.coeliac.co.uk/other/TextOnly/?ContentID=252&FontSize=9] has [[Coeliac disease|coeliac]] (also written as celiac) [[disease]]—a condition that is caused by an adverse [[immune system]] reaction to [[gliadin]], a [[gluten]] protein found in wheat (and similar proteins of the [[tribe (biology)|tribe]] [[Triticeae]] which includes other cultivars such as [[barley]] and [[rye]]). Upon exposure to gliadin, the enzyme [[tissue transglutaminase]] modifies the protein, and the immune system cross-reacts with the bowel tissue, causing an [[inflammation|inflammatory reaction]]. That leads to flattening of the lining of the small intestine, which [[malabsorption|interferes with the absorption]] of nutrients. The only effective treatment is a lifelong [[gluten-free diet]]. While the disease is caused by a reaction to wheat proteins, it is not the same as [[wheat allergy]].
The above-listed studies normally involve studying the historical or contemporary practices or ideas of one or more religious traditions using intellectual tools and frameworks that are not themselves specifically tied to any religious tradition, but that are (normally) understood to be neutral or secular.


==As a Commodity==
The idea of reasoned discourse about God suggests the possibility of a common intellectual framework or set of tools for investigating, comparing and evaluating traditions. Still, most maintain that theology is a field of study presupposed by a particular worldview of faith.
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! colspan=2|Top Ten Wheat Producers — 2007 (million metric ton)
|-
| {{EU}} || align="right" | 124.7
|-
| {{CHN}} || align="right" | 104
|-
| {{IND}} || align="right" | 69.3
|-
| {{USA}} || align="right" | 49.3
|-
| {{RUS}} || align="right" | 44.9
|-
| {{CAN}} || align="right" | 25.2
|-
| {{PAK}}|| align="right" | 21.7
|-
| {{TUR}} || align="right" | 17.5
|-
| {{ARG}} || align="right" | 15.2
|-
| {{IRN}} || align="right" | 14.8
|-
|'''World Total''' || align="right" | '''725'''
|-
|colspan=2 style="font-size:90%" |''Source: [[UN Food & Agriculture Organisation]] (FAO)''<ref>[http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/commodity.html?lang=en&item=15&year=2005 Major Food And Agricultural Commodities And Producers - Countries By Commodity<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|}
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! colspan=2|Top Ten Wheat Exporters — 2004 (million metric ton)
|-
| {{USA}} || align="right" | 31.6
|-
| {{AUS}} || align="right" | 18.5
|-
| {{CAN}} || align="right" | 15.1
|-
| {{FRA}} || align="right" | 14.9
|-
| {{ARG}} || align="right" | 10.0
|-
| {{GER}} || align="right" | 3.9
|-
| {{RUS}} || align="right" | 4.7
|-
| {{UK}} || align="right" | 2.5
|-
| {{KZK}} || align="right" | 2.4
|-
| {{IND}}|| align="right" | 2.0
|-
|'''World Total''' || align="right" | '''105.5'''
|-
|colspan=2 style="font-size:90%" |''Source: [[UN Food & Agriculture Organisation]] (FAO)''<ref>[http://www.fao.org/es/ess/toptrade/trade.asp?disp=countrybycomm&dir=exp&resource=15&ryear=2004 Key Statistics of Food and Agriculture External Trade - Exports: Countries By Commodity, Wheat<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|}


[[Image:2005wheat.PNG|thumb|left|Wheat output in 2005]]
== Studies in different institutions ==
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In [[Europe]], the traditional places for the study of theology have been [[university|universities]] and [[seminary|seminaries]]. Typically the [[Protestant]] state churches have trained their clergy in universities while the [[Roman Catholic church]] has used seminaries and universities for both the clergy and the laity. However, the secularization of European states has closed down the theological [[Faculty (university)|faculties]] in many countries, while the Catholic church has increased the academical level of its priests by founding a number of pontifical universities.


Harvested wheat grain that enters trade is classified according to grain properties (see below) for the purposes of the [[commodity markets|commodities market]]. Wheat buyers use the classifications to help determine which wheat to purchase as each class has special uses. Wheat producers determine which classes of wheat are the most profitable to cultivate with this system.
In some countries, some state-funded universities have theology departments (sometimes, but not always, universities with a medieval or early-modern pedigree), which can have a variety of formal relationships to Christian churches or to institutions within other religious traditions. These range from departments of theology, which have only informal or ad-hoc links to religious institutions (see, for instance, several theology departments in the UK), to countries like [[Finland]] and [[Sweden]], which have state universities with faculties of theology training [[Lutheran]] priests as well as teachers and scholars of religion&mdash;although students from the latter faculties can also go on to pursue typical graduate careers such as marketing, business or administration, even if doing so is frowned upon by some.


Wheat is widely cultivated as a [[cash crop]] because it produces a good yield per unit area, grows well in a [[temperate climate]] even with a moderately short [[growing season]], and yields a versatile, high-quality [[flour]] that is widely used in [[baking]]. Most [[bread]]s are made with wheat flour, including many breads named for the other grains they contain like most [[rye]] and [[oat]] breads. The popularity of foods made from wheat flour creates a large demand for the grain, even in economies with significant food [[economic surplus|surpluses]].
== See also ==

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In 2007 there was a dramatic rise in the price of wheat due to freezes and flooding in the northern hemisphere and a drought in Australia. Wheat futures in September, 2007 for December and March delivery had risen above $9.00 a bushel, prices never seen before.<ref>[http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/295713.html "Wheat futures again hit new highs"] article by Victoria Sizemore Long in ''[[The Kansas City Star]]'' September 28, 2007</ref> There were complaints in Italy about the high price of pasta.<ref>[http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gn9LSyRa1AbT3rICpaVcHU36XjCQ "Wheat Prices Send Italian Pasta Costs Up"] [[Associated Press]] story by Colleen Barry, September 13, 2007
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By COLLEEN BARRY – Sep 13, 2007</ref> This followed a wider trend of escalating food prices around the globe, driven in part by climatic conditions such as drought in Australia, the diversion of arable land to other uses (such as producing government-subsidised bio-oil crops), and later by some food-producing nations placing bans or restrictions on exports in order to satisfy their own consumers.
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* [[Agnosticism]]
Other drivers affecting wheat prices include the movement to bio fuels (in 2008, a third of corn crops in the US are expected to be devoted to ethanol production){{Fact|date=September 2008}} and rising incomes in developing countries, which is causing a shift in eating patterns from predominantly rice to more meat based diets (a rise in meat production equals a rise in grain consumption - seven kilograms of grain is required to produce one kilogram of beef. <ref>[http://www.compareshares.com.au/fras38.php "Broker picks in the soft commodities sector"] in ''[[CompareShares]]'' April 2, 2008</ref>
* [[Apostasy]]

* [[Ascetical theology]]
==Production and consumption statistics==
* [[Atheism]]
{{Main|International wheat production statistics}}
* [[Biblical Theology]]
In 2003, global per capita wheat consumption was 67 kg, with the highest per capita consumption (239 kg) found in [[Kyrgyzstan]] <ref>http://faostat.fao.org/ FAOSTAT</ref>.
* [[Blasphemy]]

* [[Christian apologetics]]
Unlike rice, wheat production is more widespread globally though China's share is almost one-sixth of the world.
* [[Christian theology]]
==Agronomy==
* [[Constructive theology]]
[[Image:Spiklet.jpg|thumb|Wheat spikelet with the three anthers sticking out.]]
* [[Conversational intolerance]]
While winter wheat lies dormant during a winter freeze, wheat normally requires between 110 and 130 days between planting and harvest, depending upon climate, seed type, and soil conditions.
* [[Creationism]]
Crop management decisions require the knowledge of stage of development of the crop. In particular, spring [[fertilizer]] applications, [[herbicide]]s, [[fungicide]]s, [[growth regulator]]s are typically applied at specific stages of plant development.
* [[Doctor of Divinity]]

* [[Entheogen]]
For example, current recommendations often indicate the second application of nitrogen be done when the ear (not visible at this stage) is about 1 cm in size (Z31 on [[Zadoks scale]]). Knowledge of stages is also interesting to identify periods of higher risk, in terms of climate. For example, the meiosis stage is extremely susceptible to low temperatures (under 4 °C) or high temperatures (over 25 °C). Farmers also benefit from knowing when the flag leaf (last leaf) appears as this leaf represents about 75% of photosynthesis reactions during the [[grain-filling]] period and as such should be preserved from disease or insect attacks to ensure a good yield.
* [[Exegesis]]

* [[Feminist theology]]
Several systems exist to identify crop stages, with the [[Feekes scale|Feekes]] and [[Zadoks scale]]s being the most widely used. Each scale is a standard system which describes successive stages reached by the crop during the agricultural season.
* [[Formal and material principles of theology]]

* [[Heresy]]
*Wheat at the anthesis stage (face and side view)
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* [[Hierology]]
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* [[History of theology]]
|[[Image:WheatFlower3.JPG|thumb|none|]]
* [[Liberation theology]]
* [[Moral theology]]
* [[Natural theology]]
* [[Neurotheology]]
* ''[[Odium theologicum]]''
* [[Perfection]] ("Ontological and theological perfection")
* [[Philosophy of religion]]
* [[Process theology]]
* [[Propitiation]]
* [[Queer theology]]
* [[Scholasticism]]
* [[Sola fide]] or "Justification by faith"
* [[Systematic theology]]
* [[Theogony]]
* [[Theological aesthetics]]
* [[Theosony]]
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== Footnotes ==
==Diseases==
{{Main|Wheat diseases|List of wheat diseases}}
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Estimates of the amount of wheat production lost owing to plant diseases vary between 10-25% in Missouri.<ref>[http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/crops/g04319.htm G4319 Wheat Diseases in Missouri, MU Extension<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> A wide range of organisms infect wheat, of which the most important are viruses and fungi.

===Pests===
Wheat is used as a food plant by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] ([[butterfly]] and [[moth]]) species including [[Flame (moth)|The Flame]], [[Rustic Shoulder-knot]], [[Setaceous Hebrew Character]] and [[Turnip Moth]].

==Wheat Futures==
Wheat futures are traded on the [[Chicago Board of Trade]], [[Kansas City Board of Trade]] and [[Minneapolis Grain Exchange]] and have delivery dates in March (H), May (K), July (N), September (U) and December (Z).<ref>[[Wikinvest:List of Commodity Delivery Dates|List of Commodity Delivery Dates on Wikinvest]]</ref>

==See also==
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*[[Bran]]
*[[Chaff]]
*[[Husk]]
*[[Wheat germ oil]]
*[[Starch]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Bonjean, A.P., and W.J. Angus (editors). The World Wheat Book: a history of wheat breeding. Lavoisier Publ., Paris. 1131 pp. (2001). ISBN 2-7430-0402-9.
* {{cite book
| author= S. Padulosi, K. Hammer, J. Heller, editors
| date=1996
| title= Hulled wheats
| series=Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 4
| publisher= International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy
|url= http://www.bioversityinternational.org/Publications/pubfile.asp?ID_PUB=54
}}
*Garnsey Peter, Grain for Rome, in Garnsey P., Hopkins K., Whittaker C. R. (editors), Trade in the Ancient Economy, Chatto & Windus, London 1983
*Jasny Naum, ''The daily bread of ancient Greeks and Romans'', Ex Officina Templi, Brugis 1950
*Jasny Naum, ''The Wheats of Classical Antiquity, J''. Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1944
*Heiser Charles B., ''Seed to civilisation. The story of food,'' Harvard University Press, Harvard Mass. 1990
*Harlan Jack R., ''Crops and man'', American Society of Agronomy, Madison 1975
*Saltini Antonio, ''I semi della civiltà. Grano, riso e mais nella storia delle società umane'', Prefazione di Luigi Bernabò Brea, Avenue Media, Bologna 1996
*Sauer Jonathan D., ''Geography of Crop Plants. A Select Roster'', CRC Press, Boca Raton

==External links==
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaco/sets/72157604419390265/ Photos of wheat fields]
*[http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1913579.htm Watch Australian science documentary on developing drought-resistant wheat]
*[http://www.wheatfoods.org/ Wheat Foods Council] Est. 1972
*[http://www.wheatworld.org/ NAWG] — Web site of the [[National Association of Wheat Growers]]
*[http://www.cimmyt.org/ CIMMYT] — Web site of the [[International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center]]
*[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/crops/wheat.html Triticum species] at [[Purdue University]]
*[http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/168/2/1087 A Workshop Report on Wheat Genome Sequencing]
*[http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/full/10/10/1509 Molecular Genetic Maps in Wild Emmer Wheat]
*[http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/malin/ Winter Wheat in the Golden Belt of Kansas] by James C. Malin, University of Kansas, 1944
*[http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-1510:1 ''Varieties of club wheat''] hosted by the [http://digital.library.unt.edu/browse/department/govdocs/ UNT Government Documents Department]

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* [http://www.jmclajot.net Pictures of Seminary in Namur (Belgium)] - Features by Jean-Michel Clajot, Belgian photographer
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* [http://www.conservativetheologicalresearch.com/ Conservative Theological Research]
* [http://www.theologian.org.uk/ The Theologian: the internet journal for integrated theology]
* [http://www.ccel.org/index/classics.html Christian Classics Library]
* [http://www.cedu.niu.edu/lepf/edpsych/faculty/roberts/Entheogens-Sacramentals-or-Sacrilege-draft-11e.doc University course: Entheogens — Sacramentals or Sacrilege?]
*[http://faur.derushah.com/articlesbyhakhamjosefaur.html#intuitive Intuitive Knowledge of God in Medieval Jewish Theology] by Jose Faur, contrasting the intuitive theology of the medieval Rabbanites with the hyper-rationalism of the Karaites
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Triticum

Species

T. aestivum
T. aethiopicum
T. araraticum
T. boeoticum
T. carthlicum
T. compactum
T. dicoccoides
T. dicoccon
T. durum
T. ispahanicum
T. karamyschevii
T. macha
T. militinae
T. monococcum
T. polonicum
T. spelta
T. sphaerococcum
T. timopheevii
T. turanicum
T. turgidum
T. urartu
T. vavilovii
T. zhukovskyi
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  ITIS 42236 2002-09-22

Wheat (Triticum spp.)[1] is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Levant area of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal crops; rice ranks third.[2] Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads; cookies, cakes, breakfast cereal, pasta, juice, noodles and couscous;[3] and for fermentation to make beer,[4] alcohol, vodka[5] or biofuel.[6] Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and the straw can be used as fodder for livestock or as a construction material for roofing thatch.[7][8]

Although wheat supplies much of the world's dietary protein and food supply, as many as one in every 100 to 200 people has Coeliac disease, a condition which results from an immune system response to a protein found in wheat: gluten (based on figures for the United States).[9][10][11]

History

Wheat originated in Southwest Asia in the area known as the Fertile crescent. The genetic relationships between wild and domesticated populations of both einkorn and emmer wheat indicate that the most likely site of domestication is near Diyarbakır in Turkey.[12]

Wild wheats were domesticated as part of the origins of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Cultivation and repeated harvesting and sowing of the grains of wild grasses led to the domestication of wheat through selection of mutant forms with tough ears that remained intact during harvesting, larger grains, and a tendency for the spikelets to stay on the stalk until harvested. [13] Because of the loss of seed dispersal mechanisms, domesticated wheats have limited capacity to propagate in the wild.[14]

The exact timing of the first appearance of domesticated wheats is currently uncertain, but is either in the PPNA period (9800-8800 cal BC) or the early-mid PPNB (8800-7500 cal BC). Domesticated einkorn and emmer wheat has been identified at three PPNA sites in the northern Levant, Iraq ed-Dubb, Jericho and Tell Aswad, but both the dating and the domesticated status of these cereals is disputed.[15] Domesticated wheats (and other Neolithic founder crops) are unambiguously present at early-mid PPNB sites in the northern Levant, such as Ain Ghazal, Abu Hureyra and Tell Aswad, and in southeast Turkey at Cafer Höyük and Çayönü.[16] As a round figure, it is correct to say that wheats have been domesticated for about 10,000 years.

The cultivation of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic period, reaching the Aegean by 8500 cal BC and the Indian subcontinent by 6000 cal BC. By 5,000 years ago, wheat had reached Ethiopia, Great Britain, Ireland and Spain. A millennium later it reached China.[14] Claims have been made for independent domestication of wheat outside the fertile crescent, but these lack evidence of the presence of wild wheats or of early domesticated wheat.[17]

Three thousand years ago wheat was grown in the souther oregon peninsula agricultural cultivation with horse-drawn plows increased cereal grain production, as did the use of seed drills to replace broadcast sowing in the 18th century. Yields of wheat continued to increase, as new land came under cultivation and with improved agricultural husbandry involving the use of fertilizers, threshing machines and reaping machines, tractor-drawn cultivators and planters, and varieties adapted to intensive cultivation (see green revolution and Norin 10 wheat).[18]

Genetics

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Spikelets of a hulled wheat, einkorn

Wheat genetics is more complicated than that of most other domesticated species. Some wheat species are diploid, with two sets of chromosomes, but many are stable polyploids, with four sets of chromosomes (tetraploid) or six (hexaploid).[19]

  • Einkorn wheat (T. monococcum) is diploid.[1]
  • Most tetraploid wheats (e.g. emmer and durum wheat) are derived from wild emmer, T. dicoccoides. Wild emmer is the result of a hybridization between two diploid wild grasses, T. urartu and a wild goatgrass such as Aegilops searsii or Ae. speltoides. The hybridization that formed wild emmer occurred in the wild, long before domestication.[19]
  • Hexaploid wheats evolved in farmers' fields. Either domesticated emmer or durum wheat hybridized with yet another wild diploid grass (Aegilops tauschii) to make the hexaploid wheats, spelt wheat and bread wheat.[19]

Plant breeding

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In traditional agricultural systems wheat populations often consist of landraces, informal farmer-maintained populations that often maintain high levels of morphological diversity. Although landraces of wheat are no longer grown in Europe and North America, they continue to be important elsewhere. The origins of formal wheat breeding lie in the nineteenth century, when single line varieties were created through selection of seed from a single plant noted to have desired properties. Modern wheat breeding developed in the first years of the twentieth century and was closely linked to the development of Mendelian genetics. The standard method of breeding inbred wheat cultivars is by crossing two lines using hand emasculation, then selfing or inbreeding the progeny. Selections are identified (shown to have the genes responsible for the varietal differences) ten or more generations before release as a variety or cultivar.[20]

F1 hybrid wheat cultivars should not be confused with wheat cultivars deriving from standard plant breeding. Heterosis or hybrid vigor (as in the familiar F1 hybrids of maize) occurs in common (hexaploid) wheat, but it is difficult to produce seed of hybrid cultivars on a commercial scale as is done with maize because wheat flowers are complete and normally self-pollinate.[20] Commercial hybrid wheat seed has been produced using chemical hybridizing agents, plant growth regulators that selectively interfere with pollen development, or naturally occurring cytoplasmic male sterility systems. Hybrid wheat has been a limited commercial success in Europe (particularly France), the USA and South Africa.[21]

The major breeding objectives include high grain yield, good quality, disease and insect resistance and tolerance to abiotic stresses include mineral, moisture and heat tolerance. The major diseases in temperate environments include Fusarium head blight, leaf rust and stem rust, whereas in tropical areas spot blotch (wheat) (also known as Helminthosporium leaf blight). See physiological and molecular wheat breeding

Hulled versus free-threshing wheat

A mature wheat field, in northern Israel

The four wild species of wheat, along with the domesticated varieties einkorn,[22] emmer[23] and spelt,[24] have hulls (in German, Spelzweizen). This more primitive morphology consists of toughened glumes that tightly enclose the grains, and (in domesticated wheats) a semi-brittle rachis that breaks easily on threshing. The result is that when threshed, the wheat ear breaks up into spikelets. To obtain the grain, further processing, such as milling or pounding, is needed to remove the hulls or husks. In contrast, in free-threshing (or naked) forms such as durum wheat and common wheat, the glumes are fragile and the rachis tough. On threshing, the chaff breaks up, releasing the grains. Hulled wheats are often stored as spikelets because the toughened glumes give good protection against pests of stored grain.[22]

Naming

Sack of wheat

There are many botanical classification systems used for wheat species, discussed in a separate article on Wheat taxonomy. The name of a wheat species from one information source may not be the name of a wheat species in another. Within a species, wheat cultivars are further classified by wheat breeders and farmers in terms of growing season, such as winter wheat vs. spring wheat,[8] by gluten content, such as hard wheat (high protein content) vs. soft wheat (high starch content), or by grain color (red, white or amber).

In British English wheat may be referred to as corn.[25]

Major cultivated species of wheat

  • Common wheat or Bread wheat — (T. aestivum) A hexaploid species that is the most widely cultivated in the world.
  • Durum — (T. durum) The only tetraploid form of wheat widely used today, and the second most widely cultivated wheat.
  • Einkorn — (T. monococcum) A diploid species with wild and cultivated variants. Domesticated at the same time as emmer wheat, but never reached the same importance.
  • Emmer — (T. dicoccon) A tetraploid species, cultivated in ancient times but no longer in widespread use.
  • Spelt — (T. spelta) Another hexaploid species cultivated in limited quantities.

In the United States

Wheat harvest on the Palouse.
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Combining wheat in Hemingway, South Carolina.

Classes used in the United States are

  • Durum — Very hard, translucent, light colored grain used to make semolina flour for pasta.
  • Hard Red Spring — Hard, brownish, high protein wheat used for bread and hard baked goods. Bread Flour and high gluten flours are commonly made from hard red spring wheat. It is primarily traded at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
  • Hard Red Winter — Hard, brownish, mellow high protein wheat used for bread, hard baked goods and as an adjunct in other flours to increase protein in pastry flour for pie crusts. Some brands of unbleached all-purpose flours are commonly made from hard red winter wheat alone. It is primarily traded by the Kansas City Board of Trade. One variety is known as "turkey red wheat", and was brought to Kansas by Mennonite immigrants from Russia.
  • Soft Red Winter — Soft, low protein wheat used for cakes, pie crusts, biscuits, and muffins. Cake flour, pastry flour, and some self-rising flours with baking powder and salt added for example, are made from soft red winter wheat. It is primarily traded by the Chicago Board of Trade.
  • Hard White — Hard, light colored, opaque, chalky, medium protein wheat planted in dry, temperate areas. Used for bread and brewing.
  • Soft White — Soft, light colored, very low protein wheat grown in temperate moist areas. Used for pie crusts and pastry. Pastry flour, for example, is sometimes made from soft white winter wheat.

Hard wheats are harder to process and red wheats may need bleaching. Therefore, soft and white wheats usually command higher prices than hard and red wheats on the commodities market.

As a food

Wheat germ, crude
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy1,506 kJ (360 kcal)
51.8 g
Dietary fiber13.2 g
9.72 g
23.15 g
Vitamins and minerals
VitaminsQuantity
%DV
Thiamine (B1)
157%
1.882 mg
Riboflavin (B2)
38%
0.499 mg
Niacin (B3)
43%
6.813 mg
Pantothenic acid (B5)
1%
0.05 mg
Vitamin B6
76%
1.3 mg
Folate (B9)
70%
281 μg
MineralsQuantity
%DV
Calcium
3%
39 mg
Iron
35%
6.26 mg
Magnesium
57%
239 mg
Phosphorus
67%
842 mg
Potassium
30%
892 mg
Zinc
112%
12.29 mg
Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults,[26] except for potassium, which is estimated based on expert recommendation from the National Academies.[27]
Cracked wheat

Raw wheat can be powdered into flour; germinated and dried creating malt; crushed and into cracked wheat; parboiled (or steamed), dried, crushed and de-branned into bulgur; or processed into semolina, pasta, or roux. Wheat is a major ingredient in such foods as bread, porridge, crackers, biscuits, Muesli, pancakes, pies, pastries, cakes & cupcakes, cookies, muffins, rolls, doughnuts, gravy, boza (a fermented beverage), and breakfast cereals (e.g. Wheatena, Cream of Wheat, Shredded Wheat, and Wheaties).

Nutrition

100 grams of hard red winter wheat contain about 12.6 grams of protein, 1.5 grams of total fat, 71 grams of carbohydrate (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary fiber, and 3.2 mg of iron (17% of the daily requirement); the same weight of hard red spring wheat contains about 15.4 grams of protein, 1.9 grams of total fat, 68 grams of carbohydrate (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary fiber, and 3.6 mg of iron (20% of the daily requirement).[28]

Gluten, a protein found in wheat (and other Triticeae), cannot be tolerated by people with celiac disease (an autoimmune disorder in ~1% of Indo-European populations).[29]

Much of the carbohydrate fraction of wheat is starch. Wheat starch is an important commercial product of wheat, but second in economic value to wheat gluten.[30] The principal parts of wheat flour are gluten and starch. These can be separated in a kind of home experiment, by mixing flour and water to form a small ball of dough, and kneading it gently while rinsing it in a bowl of water. The starch falls out of the dough and sinks to the bottom of the bowl, leaving behind a ball of gluten.

Health concerns

Roughly 1% of the population[1] has coeliac (also written as celiac) disease—a condition that is caused by an adverse immune system reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein found in wheat (and similar proteins of the tribe Triticeae which includes other cultivars such as barley and rye). Upon exposure to gliadin, the enzyme tissue transglutaminase modifies the protein, and the immune system cross-reacts with the bowel tissue, causing an inflammatory reaction. That leads to flattening of the lining of the small intestine, which interferes with the absorption of nutrients. The only effective treatment is a lifelong gluten-free diet. While the disease is caused by a reaction to wheat proteins, it is not the same as wheat allergy.

As a Commodity

Top Ten Wheat Producers — 2007 (million metric ton)
 European Union 124.7
 China 104
 India 69.3
 United States 49.3
 Russia 44.9
 Canada 25.2
 Pakistan 21.7
 Turkey 17.5
 Argentina 15.2
 Iran 14.8
World Total 725
Source: UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)[31]
Top Ten Wheat Exporters — 2004 (million metric ton)
 United States 31.6
 Australia 18.5
 Canada 15.1
 France 14.9
 Argentina 10.0
 Germany 3.9
 Russia 4.7
 United Kingdom 2.5
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 India 2.0
World Total 105.5
Source: UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO)[32]
Wheat output in 2005

Harvested wheat grain that enters trade is classified according to grain properties (see below) for the purposes of the commodities market. Wheat buyers use the classifications to help determine which wheat to purchase as each class has special uses. Wheat producers determine which classes of wheat are the most profitable to cultivate with this system.

Wheat is widely cultivated as a cash crop because it produces a good yield per unit area, grows well in a temperate climate even with a moderately short growing season, and yields a versatile, high-quality flour that is widely used in baking. Most breads are made with wheat flour, including many breads named for the other grains they contain like most rye and oat breads. The popularity of foods made from wheat flour creates a large demand for the grain, even in economies with significant food surpluses.

In 2007 there was a dramatic rise in the price of wheat due to freezes and flooding in the northern hemisphere and a drought in Australia. Wheat futures in September, 2007 for December and March delivery had risen above $9.00 a bushel, prices never seen before.[33] There were complaints in Italy about the high price of pasta.[34] This followed a wider trend of escalating food prices around the globe, driven in part by climatic conditions such as drought in Australia, the diversion of arable land to other uses (such as producing government-subsidised bio-oil crops), and later by some food-producing nations placing bans or restrictions on exports in order to satisfy their own consumers.

Other drivers affecting wheat prices include the movement to bio fuels (in 2008, a third of corn crops in the US are expected to be devoted to ethanol production)[citation needed] and rising incomes in developing countries, which is causing a shift in eating patterns from predominantly rice to more meat based diets (a rise in meat production equals a rise in grain consumption - seven kilograms of grain is required to produce one kilogram of beef. [35]

Production and consumption statistics

In 2003, global per capita wheat consumption was 67 kg, with the highest per capita consumption (239 kg) found in Kyrgyzstan [36].

Unlike rice, wheat production is more widespread globally though China's share is almost one-sixth of the world.

Agronomy

Wheat spikelet with the three anthers sticking out.

While winter wheat lies dormant during a winter freeze, wheat normally requires between 110 and 130 days between planting and harvest, depending upon climate, seed type, and soil conditions. Crop management decisions require the knowledge of stage of development of the crop. In particular, spring fertilizer applications, herbicides, fungicides, growth regulators are typically applied at specific stages of plant development.

For example, current recommendations often indicate the second application of nitrogen be done when the ear (not visible at this stage) is about 1 cm in size (Z31 on Zadoks scale). Knowledge of stages is also interesting to identify periods of higher risk, in terms of climate. For example, the meiosis stage is extremely susceptible to low temperatures (under 4 °C) or high temperatures (over 25 °C). Farmers also benefit from knowing when the flag leaf (last leaf) appears as this leaf represents about 75% of photosynthesis reactions during the grain-filling period and as such should be preserved from disease or insect attacks to ensure a good yield.

Several systems exist to identify crop stages, with the Feekes and Zadoks scales being the most widely used. Each scale is a standard system which describes successive stages reached by the crop during the agricultural season.

  • Wheat at the anthesis stage (face and side view)
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Diseases

Estimates of the amount of wheat production lost owing to plant diseases vary between 10-25% in Missouri.[37] A wide range of organisms infect wheat, of which the most important are viruses and fungi.

Pests

Wheat is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species including The Flame, Rustic Shoulder-knot, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Turnip Moth.

Wheat Futures

Wheat futures are traded on the Chicago Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade and Minneapolis Grain Exchange and have delivery dates in March (H), May (K), July (N), September (U) and December (Z).[38]

See also

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Further reading

  • Bonjean, A.P., and W.J. Angus (editors). The World Wheat Book: a history of wheat breeding. Lavoisier Publ., Paris. 1131 pp. (2001). ISBN 2-7430-0402-9.
  • S. Padulosi, K. Hammer, J. Heller, editors (1996). Hulled wheats. Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 4. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Garnsey Peter, Grain for Rome, in Garnsey P., Hopkins K., Whittaker C. R. (editors), Trade in the Ancient Economy, Chatto & Windus, London 1983
  • Jasny Naum, The daily bread of ancient Greeks and Romans, Ex Officina Templi, Brugis 1950
  • Jasny Naum, The Wheats of Classical Antiquity, J. Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1944
  • Heiser Charles B., Seed to civilisation. The story of food, Harvard University Press, Harvard Mass. 1990
  • Harlan Jack R., Crops and man, American Society of Agronomy, Madison 1975
  • Saltini Antonio, I semi della civiltà. Grano, riso e mais nella storia delle società umane, Prefazione di Luigi Bernabò Brea, Avenue Media, Bologna 1996
  • Sauer Jonathan D., Geography of Crop Plants. A Select Roster, CRC Press, Boca Raton

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