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Ancient barley DNA gives insight into crop development [1]

An international group of scientists have analysed the DNA of 6,000 year old barley finding that it is remarkably similar to modern day varieties.

Publication Date: 
19/07/2016
BBC (UK) [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], Food Crops [4], Agricultural Research [5], Genetic Engineering [6], Farmers [7]
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