The importance of barley genetics and domestication in a global perspective

Annals of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 999-1008

  Pourkheirandish, Mohammad ^a   Komatsuda, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barley; Common ancestor; Domestication gene; Genome evolution; Hordeum; vrs1

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BARLEY; DOMESTICATION; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; PHOTOPERIOD; RICE; WILD POPULATION;

AGRICULTURE; BARLEY; CROP; FLOWERING; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FLOWERING TOPS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORDEUM; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM;

EID: 35349019313     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm139     Document Type: Review

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