Article
Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley.
Nature genetics - 1 Sept 2016
Mascher Martin, Schuenemann Verena J, Davidovich Uri, Marom Nimrod, Himmelbach Axel, Hübner Sariel, Korol Abraham, David Michal, Reiter Ella, Riehl Simone, Schreiber Mona, Vohr Samuel H, Green Richard E, Dawson Ian K, Russell Joanne, Kilian Benjamin, Muehlbauer Gary J, Waugh Robbie, Fahima Tzion, Krause Johannes, Weiss Ehud, Stein Nils
Abstract excerpt
The cereal grass barley was domesticated about 10,000 years before the present in the Fertile Crescent and became a founder crop of Neolithic agriculture. Here we report the genome sequences of five 6,000-year-old barley grains excavated at a cave in the Judean Desert close to the Dead Sea. Comparison to whole-exome sequence data from a diversity panel of present-day barley accessions showed the close affinity of...
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