title: Barley: From Brittle to Stable Harvest.
abstract: Selection and domestication of plants with genes that prevent grains from shattering in cereals was essential for human civilization's transition to agriculture-based societies. In this issue, Pourkheirandish et al. show that domestication of barley required evolution of a molecular system distinct from other grains, such as rice and maize, and reveal that present-day cultivars derive from two ancient domestication centers.
authors.affiliation: Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Haberer
authors.affiliation: Plant Genome and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany; College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: k.mayer@helmholtz-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Klaus F X
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Mayer
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D001467:Hordeum / Q000502:physiology*; D058614:Seed Dispersal