SNP Discovery in Nine Lines of Cultivated Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is amongst the oldest domesticated crop plants and remains one of the world’s most important crop species. It is diploid with a haploid genome of 5.1 gigabases (Gb), twice the size of those of human and maize, and closely related to the most widely grown crop, hexaploid wheat. To meet global demand for food, feed and fibre, it is commonly agreed that reference genome sequences of our crop plants are urgently required to enable genome-assisted crop improvement. As part of the The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) we present here raw data obtained from Illumina (GAII) sequencing of RNA samples from nine different barley cultivars for the purpose of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery.