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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/

Facts
Scientific Name
Hordeum vulgare 3
Crop Class
Cereal 2
Domestication Region
Fertile Crescent, Southwest Asia 3
Domesticated When (Circa)
circa 9000 BC 3
Climate
Temperate 3
Classification
Life Cycle
Annual 1
Primary Use
Feed 2
Era
Era (category)
Neolithic 2
Barley
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Affected By

Source Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Claviceps purpurea (Wikipedia)
Source Cochliobolus sativus (Wikipedia)
Source Ergot (Wikipedia)
Source Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
Source Gibberella zeae (Wikipedia)
Source Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
Source Glomerella graminicola (Wikipedia)
Source Heterodera avenae (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Rice Blast (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Take-all Disease (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Leaf Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stripe Rust (Wikipedia)

Associated With

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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Source Barley (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database: USDA PLANTS profile data for Hordeum vulgare
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS DatabasePlantProfile, Durations
Quote, PlantProfile, Durations
"Durations": [ "Annual" ]
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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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3. Barley (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • lead description or Wikipedia lead (primary-uses)
    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.
  • History section
    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.
  • Lead
    Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Affected By: Wheat Stem Rust, Article text
    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.
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Wheat Leaf Rust (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Wheat Leaf Rust, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Wheat Leaf Rust, Article text
Wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) is a fungal disease that affects wheat, barley, rye stems, leaves and grains.
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Rice Blast (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Rice Blast, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Rice Blast, Article text
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.
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Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Affected By: Fusarium Head 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.
  • 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.
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Ergot (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Ergot, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Ergot, Article text
C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley.
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Take-all Disease (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Take-all Disease, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Take-all Disease, Article text
All varieties of wheat and barley are susceptible.
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Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Article text
It affects the economically important crop species barley, oats, wheat, maize, triticale and rice.
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Wheat Stripe Rust (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Wheat Stripe Rust, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Wheat Stripe Rust, Article text
Primary hosts of yellow rust of wheat are Triticum aestivum (bread wheat), Triticum turgidum (durum wheat), triticale, and a few Hordeum vulgare (barley) cultivars.
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Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus, Article text
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.
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Claviceps purpurea (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Claviceps purpurea, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Claviceps purpurea, Article text
C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley.
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Cochliobolus sativus (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Cochliobolus sativus, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Cochliobolus sativus, Article text
The two most common diseases caused by B. sorokiniana are spot blotch and common root rot, mainly on wheat and barley crops.
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Glomerella graminicola (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Glomerella graminicola, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Glomerella graminicola, Article text
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.
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Heterodera avenae (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Heterodera avenae, Article text
Quote, Affected By: Heterodera avenae, Article text
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.
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Gibberella zeae (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Fusarium graminearum, Lead section
Quote, Affected By: Fusarium graminearum, Lead section
a devastating disease on wheat and barley
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