Barley: From Brittle to Stable Harvest.

Haberer, Georg; Mayer, Klaus F X · Cell · 2015

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Abstract

Selection and domestication of plants with genes that prevent grains from shattering in cereals was essential for human civilization's transition to agriculture-based societies. In this issue, Pourkheirandish et al. show that domestication of barley required evolution of a molecular system distinct from other grains, such as rice and maize, and reveal that present-day cultivars derive from two ancient domestication centers.

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