One of the first grains ever domesticated, alongside wheat in the Fertile Crescent. Hardier than wheat in cold, drought and salty soil, barley was the bread grain of the ancient poor and the ration of Roman soldiers, and survives today chiefly as animal feed and as malt, the foundation of beer and whisky. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionFertile Crescent, Southwest Asia 3 Domesticated When (Circa) Era
Era (category) Barley
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Source Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (Wikipedia)
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Source Glomerella graminicola (Wikipedia)
Source Heterodera avenae (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
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Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Take-all Disease (Wikipedia)
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Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stripe Rust (Wikipedia)
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Barley yellow dwarf virus is the most widely distributed viral disease of barley and other cereals.
Barley is one of ICARDA's founding dryland mandate crops.
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1. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database: USDA PLANTS profile data for Hordeum vulgare
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"Durations": [ "Annual" ]
View the Source 2. Barley (Wikipedia)
- lead: a major cereal grain
- lead: 70% of barley production is used as animal feed
- lead: used in soups and stews and barley bread of various cultures
- lead: domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC
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Globally, 70% of barley production is used as animal feed, while 30% is used as a source of fermentable material for beer, or further distilled into whisky, and as a component of various foods.
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Barley was one of the first grains to be domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, an area of relatively abundant water in Western Asia, around 9,000 BC.
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
View the Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
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Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale.
Affected By: Stem rust, Article text
Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale.
Affected By: Puccinia graminis, Article text
Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale.
View the Source Wheat Leaf Rust (Wikipedia)
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Wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) is a fungal disease that affects wheat, barley, rye stems, leaves and grains.
View the Source Rice Blast (Wikipedia)
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Members of the M. grisea complex can also infect other agriculturally important cereals including wheat, rye, barley, and pearl millet causing diseases called blast disease or blight disease.
View the Source Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
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Fusarium ear blight (FEB) (also called Fusarium head blight, FHB, or scab), is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale.
Affected By: Fusarium ear blight, Article text
Fusarium ear blight (FEB) (also called Fusarium head blight, FHB, or scab), is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale.
View the Source Ergot (Wikipedia)
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C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley.
View the Source Take-all Disease (Wikipedia)
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All varieties of wheat and barley are susceptible.
View the Source Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (Wikipedia)
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It affects the economically important crop species barley, oats, wheat, maize, triticale and rice.
View the Source Wheat Stripe Rust (Wikipedia)
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Primary hosts of yellow rust of wheat are Triticum aestivum (bread wheat), Triticum turgidum (durum wheat), triticale, and a few Hordeum vulgare (barley) cultivars.
View the Source Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
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WSMV infects some of the most agriculturally important members of the family Poaceae, including wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, sorghum, and millet; additionally, some grassy weeds have been known to serve as alternate hosts. == Diagnosis == “Serious infection of winter wheat occurs in early fall, but symptoms usually do not develop until spring.
View the Source Claviceps purpurea (Wikipedia)
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C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley.
View the Source Cochliobolus sativus (Wikipedia)
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The two most common diseases caused by B. sorokiniana are spot blotch and common root rot, mainly on wheat and barley crops.
View the Source Glomerella graminicola (Wikipedia)
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While the main host of this disease is maize, it can also affect other cereals and grasses, such as sorghum, ryegrass, bluegrass, barley, wheat, and some cultivars of fescue where the production of fruiting bodies cause symptoms to appear in the host plant.
View the Source Heterodera avenae (Wikipedia)
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Heterodera avenae, the cereal cyst nematode or European cyst nematode, is a plant pathogen and an obligate parasite of cereal crops including barley, oats, wheat and rye.
View the Source Gibberella zeae (Wikipedia)
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a devastating disease on wheat and barley
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