G.F. Stallknecht, K.M. Gilbertson y J.E. Ranney (15 de agosto de 1996). «Alternative Wheat Cereals as Food Grains: Einkorn, Emmer, Spelt, Kamut, and Triticale»(html). Universidad de Purdue(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 19 de noviembre de 2000. Consultado el 28 de noviembre de 2018. «Kamut arrived in the U.S. approximately 40 years ago, when a U.S. airman mailed 36 kernels from Egypt to his father in Montana. The seed was increased and produced commercially for a few years, but was discontinued due to lack of markets and yield averages which were lower than wheat. In 1977, the Quinn family secured a quart jar of remnant seed from which they selected and propagated a specific seed type that was registered as QK 77, and named Kamut, a word thought to mean wheat in ancient Egypt.»
G.F. Stallknecht, K.M. Gilbertson y J.E. Ranney (15 de agosto de 1996). «Alternative Wheat Cereals as Food Grains: Einkorn, Emmer, Spelt, Kamut, and Triticale»(html). Universidad de Purdue(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 19 de noviembre de 2000. Consultado el 28 de noviembre de 2018. «Kamut arrived in the U.S. approximately 40 years ago, when a U.S. airman mailed 36 kernels from Egypt to his father in Montana. The seed was increased and produced commercially for a few years, but was discontinued due to lack of markets and yield averages which were lower than wheat. In 1977, the Quinn family secured a quart jar of remnant seed from which they selected and propagated a specific seed type that was registered as QK 77, and named Kamut, a word thought to mean wheat in ancient Egypt.»