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Genomic compartments in barley

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A high-quality barley genome reveals a surprising compartmentalization of genes and repetitive sequences in chromosomes. This advance paves the way for improved genetic optimization of cereals. See Article p.427

The produce of members of the plant tribe Triticeae can be enjoyed in many ways — as freshly baked bread, perfectly cooked spaghetti or a cool beer, for example. The Triticeae includes important cereal species such as barley, bread wheat, durum wheat and rye. But most Triticeae species have been unamenable to many of the modern molecular-breeding approaches routinely used for other crops, because their large genomes have prevented the production of high-quality DNA sequences that can be used as a reference for study. On page 427, Mascher et al.1 report the first high-quality reference sequence of barley (Hordeum vulgare). This genome will influence not only future work in barley, but research and breeding of cereals in general.

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Figure 1: Partitioning a barley chromosome.

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  1. Beat Keller and Simon G. Krattinger are in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland.,

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Keller, B., Krattinger, S. Genomic compartments in barley. Nature 544, 424–425 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/544424a

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