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Barley genome sequence emerges as a promising candidate in genetic research and breeding

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Title Barley genome sequence emerges as a promising candidate in genetic research and breeding
 
Creator Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Barley
Hordeum vulgare
breeding
 
Description Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), domesticated since 8000 BC in western Asia and
Northeast Africa (Fertile Cresent), is
regarded as the founder crop of Old
World agriculture. Cultivated barley is
derived from its wild progenitor Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch, still inhabiting the Fertile Crescent from Israel and
Jordan to South Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan,
and southwestern Iran. It possesses a
distinct phenotype of broader leaves,
shorter stem and awns, tough ear rachis,
a shorter and thicker spike, and larger
grains2. Barley is the fourth largest cultivated cereal worldwide, both in terms of
area harvested (1.9 m ha) and production
(134 million tonnes; mt). Of its total
production, 75% is used as animal feed,
20% processed into alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and 5% is used in
the making of food products which contribute about 30% of the calories consumed worldwide.
 
Date 2015-11-09T06:25:42Z
2015-11-09T06:25:42Z
2013
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Current Science, 104(8): 998-999
0011-3891
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/345
http://www.currentscience.ac.in/php/toc.php?vol=104&issue=08
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Indian Academy of Sciences