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barley

[bahr-lee] / ˈbɑr li /




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Armed with this structural information, the researchers modified TKP immune receptors so they could recognize two different fungal effectors associated with infections in wheat and barley.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Rozel Shrestha, 12, set fire to a tiny effigy made of straw and barley, representing his missing father, at Kathmandu's Pashupati temple on the banks of the Bagmati river.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Corn remained supported by strong demand and tighter supplies in Brazil and the U.S., while sorghum and barley increased mainly due to spillover effects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

People appear to have shifted back toward more traditional crops such as wheat and barley during the later stages of the Late Bronze Age.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

They were one of the few families that still had daily white rice, but just like everyone else, Doha’s mother mixed it with barley, millet, and beans to make it last longer.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Radiation has been used to breed high-yield barleys, leaf-spot-resistant peanuts; radioisotope tracers have shown the way to more effective use of fertilizers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

A long series of natural hybrids of wheat, barley, and oats are also described and discussed by Rimpau, as well as artificial crosses—some very remarkable—of barleys, but they must be passed over here.

From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward

“However, the barleys look well; but perhaps you don’t understand farming?”

From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

This conclusion is not entirely in agreement with the results which have been obtained by others upon foreign beers, in the preparation of which low protein barleys have been used.

From A Study Of American Beers and Ales by L. M. Tolman


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