- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: September 16, 2009
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Barley.
Barley suffers from an image problem. Who would guess that it is one of the world's most important crops? A quick review of a recent UC Riverside press release uncovers the reason: Besides being a healthful cereal, animal feed and potential bio-fuel crop, barley is the grain of choice for making beer. Barley beer was probably the first drink developed by Neolithic humans, according to Wikipedia.
The release, written by Iqbal Pittalwala, says UC Riverside will receive a $1 million grant from USDA to map the barley genome, a necessary step in breeding new barley varieties that improve yield, disease...
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