Sequencing of barley genome achieves new milestone
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - 17:00
in Biology & Nature
Barley is one of the world's most important cereal crops. Barley, a widely grown cereal grain commonly used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages, possesses a large and highly repetitive genome that is difficult to fully sequence. Now a team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside has reached a new milestone in its work, begun in 2000, on sequencing the barley genome. The researchers have sequenced large portions of the genome that together contain nearly two-thirds of all barley genes.