Barley dormancy mutation suggests beer motivated early farmers

Monday, November 21, 2016 - 06:51 in Mathematics & Economics

Okayama University have identified the gene mutation and the enzyme it encodes to determine whether the dormancy of barley is long (better for food crops) or short (better for beer-making).

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