Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

The ‘King of Crops’: Rediscovering Ancient Diversity in Barley Through Chaff Morphology

Barley was central to the emergence of agriculture in western Asia and is today one of the world’s most widespread cereal crops. Rather than a single taxon, barley encompasses four major varieties (hulled two-row, hulled six-row, naked two-row, naked six-row) alongside its wild p...