Barley domestication: the end of a central dogma?

Genome Biol

School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.

Published: August 2015

Genomic analysis of barley paints a picture of diffuse origins of this crop, with different regional wild populations contributing putative adaptive variations.

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