The present expedition is financially supported by the Research Grant from the Ministry of Education and by personal contributions.
4. Tentative Itinerary of the Expedition
The present expedition will start at the end of May and will take the whole of June, July and will return in the middle of August, 1966. The area of the expedition will cover the Republics of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
5. Pending Questions
a. Relationships between two wild emmer wheats, Palestinian T. dicoccoides, Caucasian T. araraticum (= T. armenianum) and their relation to T. timopheevi.
b. Distribution, if any, of T. dicoccoides in the Caucasus.
c. Origin of emmer wheat based on the ecological characteristics of T. aegilopoides or T. monococcum, the donors of A genome, and Ae. speltoides, the putative donor of B genome to emmer wheat.
d. Geographical distribution of six endemic species: T. araraticum, T. carthlicum, T. paleocolchicum, T. timopheevi, T. macha and T. zhukovskyi.
6. Collections expected
a. Collection of the following 15 wheat species: T. aegilopoides, T. thaoudar, T. monococcum, T. araraticum, T. dicoccum, T. durum, T. turgidum, T. polonicum, T. carthlicum, (= T. persicum), T. paleocolchicum (= T. georgicum), T. timopheevi, T. macha, T. vavilovii, T. aestivum, T. compactum and T. zhukovskyi.
b. Addition to our sortiment of the following Aegilops species: Ae. speltoides, Ae. squarrosa, Ae. triuncialis, Ae. biuncialis, Ae. triaristata, Ae cylindrica, etc.
c. Collection of wild plants of the following genera closely or distantly related to Triticum and Aegilops: Agropyron, Elymus, Eremopyrum, Haynaldia, Henrardia, Heteranthelium, Hordeum, Secale and Taeniatherum.