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. 2015 Jul 30;162(3):469-71.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.07.023.

Barley: From Brittle to Stable Harvest

Georg Haberer  1 , Klaus F X Mayer  2
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Barley: From Brittle to Stable Harvest

Georg Haberer et al. Cell. .
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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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  • Evolution of the Grain Dispersal System in Barley.
    Pourkheirandish M, Hensel G, Kilian B, Senthil N, Chen G, Sameri M, Azhaguvel P, Sakuma S, Dhanagond S, Sharma R, Mascher M, Himmelbach A, Gottwald S, Nair SK, Tagiri A, Yukuhiro F, Nagamura Y, Kanamori H, Matsumoto T, Willcox G, Middleton CP, Wicker T, Walther A, Waugh R, Fincher GB, Stein N, Kumlehn J, Sato K, Komatsuda T. Pourkheirandish M, et al. Cell. 2015 Jul 30;162(3):527-39. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.07.002. Cell. 2015. PMID: 26232223

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