The present-day distribution of another wild wheat, einkorn, which was also domesticated early in the development of agriculture, covers a much larger area of southwest Asia.

Modern experiments show that wild emmer wheat can easily be domesticated so as to yield nearly as well as traditionally domestic strains.

At the time when emmer wheat was first cultivated, it was the most nutritious of all the varieties of grain that were then cultivated.

In the region containing the strip where wild emmer wheat has been found, climatic conditions have changed very little since before the development of agriculture.

It is very difficult, without genetic testing, to differentiate the wild form of emmer wheat from a closely related wild wheat that also grows in southwest Asia.