The Barley Genome

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Economic and Academic Importance of Barley

   • Peter Langridge

   Pages 1-10

3. Taxonomy of the Genus Hordeum and Barley (Hordeum vulgare)

   • Frank R. Blattner

   Pages 11-23

4. Cytogenetics and Genetic Stocks for Physical Mapping and Sequencing

   • Andreas Houben, Lala Aliyeva-Schnorr, Giri Prasad Joshi, Takashi R. Endo

   Pages 25-44

5. Chromosomal Genomics of Barley

   • Hana Šimková, Marie Kubaláková, Jan Vrána, Petr Cápal, Jaroslav Doležel

   Pages 45-56

6. Barley Genome Sequencing and Assembly—A First Version Reference Sequence

   • Nils Stein, Martin Mascher

   Pages 57-71

7. Gene Prediction in the Barley Genome

   • Sven O. Twardziok, Heidrun Gundlach, Thomas Lux, Pete E. Hedley, Micha Bayer, Matthias Platzer et al.

   Pages 73-88

8. The Expressed Portion of the Barley Genome

   • Craig G. Simpson, Roberto A. Barrero, Micha Bayer, Andrew Flavell, Paulo Rapazote-Flores, Matthew I. Bellgard et al.

   Pages 89-107

9. Sequence Diversity and Structural Variation

   • María Muñoz-Amatriaín, Martin Mascher

   Pages 109-122

10. The Repetitive Landscape of the Barley Genome

    • Thomas Wicker, Heidrun Gundlach, Alan H. Schulman

    Pages 123-138

11. Molecular Mapping and Cloning of Genes and QTLs

    • Mats Hansson, Takao Komatsuda, Nils Stein, Gary J. Muehlbauer

    Pages 139-154

12. Genomics Approaches to Mining Barley Germplasm Collections

    • Martin Mascher, Kazuhiro Sato, Brian Steffenson

    Pages 155-169

13. Barley Inflorescence Architecture

    • Sarah M. McKim, Ravi Koppolu, Thorsten Schnurbusch

    Pages 171-208

14. Genetics of Whole Plant Morphology and Architecture

    • Laura Rossini, Gary J. Muehlbauer, Ron Okagaki, Silvio Salvi, Maria von Korff

    Pages 209-231

15. A Genomic View of Biotic Stress Resistance

    • J. Mitch Elmore, Dragan Perovic, Frank Ordon, Patrick Schweizer, Roger P. Wise

    Pages 233-257

16. Genomic and Genetic Studies of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Barley

    • Stephanie Saade, Sónia Negrão, Darren Plett, Trevor Garnett, Mark Tester

    Pages 259-286

17. Genomics-Based Barley Breeding

    • Kevin P. Smith, William Thomas, Lucia Gutierrez, Hazel Bull

    Pages 287-315

18. Barley Domestication, Adaptation and Population Genomics

    • Karl Schmid, Benjamin Kilian, Joanne Russell

    Pages 317-336

19. The Genomes of the Secondary and Tertiary Gene Pools of Barley

    • Neele Wendler

    Pages 337-344

20. Barley Proteomics

    • Hans-Peter Mock, Christine Finnie, Katja Witzel, Birte Svensson

    Pages 345-361

This book presents an overview of the state-of-the-art in barley genome analysis, covering all aspects of sequencing the genome and translating this important information into new knowledge in basic and applied crop plant biology and new tools for research and crop improvement. Unlimited access to a high-quality reference sequence is removing one of the major constraints in basic and applied research. This book summarizes the advanced knowledge of the composition of the barley genome, its genes and the much larger non-coding part of the genome, and how this information facilitates studying the specific characteristics of barley.


One of the oldest domesticated crops, barley is the small grain cereal species that is best adapted to the highest altitudes and latitudes, and it exhibits the greatest tolerance to most abiotic stresses. With comprehensive access to the genome sequence, barley’s importance as a genetic model in comparative studies on crop species like wheat, rye, oats and even rice is likely to increase. 

• cereal crops
• barley domestication
• abiotic stress tolerance
• gene annotation
• plant breeding
• comparative genomics
• quantitative trait loci QTLs
• repetitive genome sequences

• Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland, Germany

  Nils Stein

• Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

  Gary J. Muehlbauer

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