Sequencing of five barley cultivars and one wild barley accession.. Hordeum vulgare

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. This project comprises the sequencing data of five barley cultivars (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare) and one wild barley accession (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum). In the framework of the The International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) these were used to enrich the building of a physical ordered genetic and functional sequence resource.