A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication
Yu Guo, Murukarthick Jayakodi, Axel Himmelbach, Erez Ben‐Yosef, Uri Davidovich, Michal David, Anat Hartmann, Mordechai E. Kislev, Tzion Fahima, Verena J. Schuenemann, Ella Reiter, Johannes Krause, Brian Joel Steffenson, Nils Stein, Ehud Weiss, Martin Mascher
All five wild populations fed an early barley founder population in the Fertile Crescent during extended pre-domestication cultivation; about 91% of wild-matched haplotypes split 32 to 8 ka BP.
Nature · Sep 24, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology✦ In-depth digest