Barley

Barley
	Drawing of Barley
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Hordeum
Species:	H. vulgare
Binomial name
	Hordeum vulgare; L.
Synonyms
	List

Barley is a member of the grass family of plants. Its seeds are a cereal grain. It is a staple food of humans and other animals, and it is one of mankind's oldest crops. It can be made into flour or beer.

Hordeum vulgare

Its Latin name is Hordeum vulgare. Barley is an annual plant.

Production

The world's biggest barley producers (2007)
Rank	Country	quantity (in t)	rank	Country	quantity (in t)
1	Russia	15.663.110	9	United Kingdom	5.149.000
2	File:Flag of Canada.svg Canada	11.822.100	10	United States	4.611.940
3	File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain	11.684.000	11	Poland	4.065.800
4	22x20px Germany	11.034.200	12	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China	3.851.000
5	File:Flag of France.svg France	9.472.000	13	22x20px Denmark	3.104.200
6	Turkey	7.423.000	14	Iran	3.000.000
7	22x20px Ukraine	6.000.000	15	Kazakhstan	2.600.000
8	Australia	5.920.000		World	136.207.179
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ^[3]

Barley Media

The Barley Barn at Cressing, Essex, built around 1220; its name means "barley-store".
Genetic analysis on the spread of barley from 9,000 to 2,000 BC
An account of barley rations issued monthly to adults (30 or 40 pints) and children (20 pints) written in cuneiform on clay tablet in year 4 of King Urukagina (circa 2350 BCE), from Girsu, Iraq
Barley-based animal feed pellets
6-row barley has three fertile spikelets per cluster
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Two-row and six-row barley ears. The six-row is bere from Orkney.
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Young winter barley in early November,Scotland, 2009
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Spraying barley for rust fungus,New Zealand, 1979

References

↑ Hordeum vulgare (TSN {{{ID}}}). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
↑ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, archived from the original on 8 April 2020, retrieved 2 February 2016
↑ "Statistic by the FAO in 2007". FAO. Archived from the original on 19 June 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2009.

[1] Hordeum vulgare (TSN {{{ID}}}). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

[2] The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, archived from the original on 8 April 2020, retrieved 2 February 2016

[3] "Statistic by the FAO in 2007". FAO. Archived from the original on 19 June 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2009.

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Barley

Drawing of Barley
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Hordeum
Species:	H. vulgare
Binomial name
*Hordeum vulgare* L.^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
List Frumentum hordeum E.H.L.Krause nom. illeg. Frumentum sativum E.H.L.Krause Hordeum aestivum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum americanum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum bifarium Roth Hordeum brachyatherum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum caspicum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum coeleste (L.) P.Beauv. Hordeum daghestanicum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum defectoides R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum durum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum elongatum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum gymnodistichum Duthie Hordeum heterostychon P.Beauv. [Spelling variant] Hordeum hexastichon L. Hordeum hibernaculum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum hibernans R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum himalayense Schult. Hordeum hirtiusculum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum horsfordianum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum ircutianum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum jarenskianum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum juliae R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum kalugense R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum karzinianum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum kiarchanum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum laevipaleatum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum lapponicum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum leptostachys Griff. Hordeum macrolepis A.Braun Hordeum mandshuricum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum mandshuroides R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum michalkowii R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum nekludowii R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum nigrum Willd. Hordeum pamiricum Vavilov nom. inval. Hordeum parvum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum pensanum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum polystichon Haller Hordeum praecox R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum pyramidatum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum revelatum (Körn.) A.Schulz Hordeum sativum Jess. nom. illeg. Hordeum sativum Pers. nom. inval. Hordeum scabriusculum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum septentrionale R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum stassewitschii R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum strobelense Chiov. Hordeum taganrocense R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum tanaiticum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum tetrastichum Stokes Hordeum transcaucasicum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum violaceum R.E.Regel nom. inval. Hordeum walpersii R.E.Regel nom. inval. Secale orientale Schreb. ex Roth nom. inval.