range of diseases in Khorasan wheat is more or less the same as in all other wheat species. Main diseases are typically caused by fungi, such as the Fusarium head blight or the "black tip". Khorasan wheat has been found very susceptible to Fusarium head blight. Because of the high susceptibility to fungi, crop rotation is quite important, especially under organic production conditions. The rotation requirements resemble more or less those of durum wheat. Depending on the specific production setting, Khorasan production after maize or other cereals should be avoided. Typical robust rotations would contain some of the following crops: canola, sunflower, pulses, sorghum and pasture legumes. Aspects of breeding The traditional aim of plant breeding is to improve the agronomic or nutritional qualities of a crop. Typical goals are improved yield, reduced susceptibility to diseases and pests, homogeneous maturation (to optimize harvest) and increased tolerance to environmental stresses, i.e., drought, acid soil, high or cold temperature, etc. Most of the known wheat species today are polyploid. Whereas common bread wheat is hexaploid, Khorasan wheat is tetraploid. To do further breeding with this tetraploid Khorasan wheat, the genetic pool to use is a little bit limited to the tetraploid subspecies of triticum turgidum such as durum (subsp. durum), Polish (subsp. polonicum), Persian (subsp. carthlicum), Emmer (subsp. dicoccum) and Poulard (subsp. turgidum) wheat. Especially to develop resistances against common fungi (e.g., Fusarium head blight), this genomic pool is interesting. Problematic in this case, is the economic unimportance of most of the tetraploid subspecies of wheat (except durum), which limits the investment to do intensive breeding, especially compared to the highly important common bread wheat. Kamut KAMUT is a registered trademark owned by the US company Kamut, founded in Montana by organic farmer Bob Quinn. The name designates the wheat cultivar of the subspecies Triticum turgidum ssp. turanicum from a commercial point of view. The production and sale of this cultivar under the commercial name of Kamut is strictly regulated and must be certified and comply with a series of rules established by the US company. The wheat produced from the cultivar was registered in 1990 with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the official name of QK-77 and was initially sold at agricultural fairs in Montana under the name of "King Tut wheat". The registration subsequently expired. The word Kamut derives from its hieroglyphic ideogram and means "wheat". See