Publication Details
Issue: Vol 2, No 8 (2025)
ISSN: 2997-9331

Abstract

Relevance and necessity of the topic. Description. Barley is a cereal, a member of the grass family with edible grains. Its flowers are clusters of spikelets arranged in a distinctive herringbone pattern. Each spikelet has a long thin awn (to 160 mm (6.3 in) long), making the ears look tufted. The spikes are in clusters of three. In six-row barley, all three spikes in each cluster are fertile; in two-row barley, only the central one is fertile [2]. It is a self-pollinating, diploid species with 14 chromosomes [3].