Barley
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.
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| Drawing of Barley | |
Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Plantae |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Hordeum |
| Species: | H. vulgare
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| Binomial name | |
| Hordeum vulgare | |
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List
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Its Latin name is Hordeum vulgare. Barley is an annual plant.
Production
| Rank | Country | quantity (in t) |
rank | Country | quantity (in t) |
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| 1 |  Russia |
15.663.110 | 9 |  United Kingdom |
5.149.000 |
| 2 |  Canada |
11.822.100 | 10 |  United States |
4.611.940 |
| 3 |  Spain |
11.684.000 | 11 |  Poland |
4.065.800 |
| 4 |  Germany |
11.034.200 | 12 |  China |
3.851.000 |
| 5 |  France |
9.472.000 | 13 |  Denmark |
3.104.200 |
| 6 |  Turkey |
7.423.000 | 14 |  Iran |
3.000.000 |
| 7 |  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
With and without the outer husk
Barley seed under the microscope
Barley (Hordeum vulgare) - United States National Arboretum - 24 May 2009
Confocal microscope image of the root of a barley plant (Hordeum vulgare), viewed in cross-section.
Two-row and six-row barley ears. The six-row is bere from Orkney.
- Hordeumbarley
Seven mid-20th-century malting varieties studied at Canterbury Agricultural College
Genetic analysis on the spread of barley from 9,000 to 2,000 BCE
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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. Retrieved 30 January 2009.