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Wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum var. dicoccoides) in Israel is used as an examp1e of how the various roles of research and conservation and management practice may be detemlined in the conservation and management of wild relatives of cultivated plants. An account is given of the govemment-commissioned Ammiad project for the 'Dynamic conservation of the Wild Wheat in Israel ', its prospects and the Iessons that can be drawn from il.