Hordeum spontaneum

…bce from its wild progenitor Hordeum spontaneum. Archaeological evidence dates barley cultivation to 5000 bce in Egypt, 2350 bce in Mesopotamia, 3000 bce in northwestern Europe, and 1500 bce in China. Barley was the chief bread plant of the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans and of much of Europe through the…