Stage-specific dynamics of grain-associated bacterial communities during barley malting
This BioProject contains 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data from grain-associated bacterial communities of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivar Zhongpimai 1 during malting. Samples were collected from six processing stages, including dry grain before steeping (S0), after steeping (S1), after 1, 3, and 5 days of germination (S2-S4), and kilned malt (S5). The project was designed to characterize stage-specific bacterial succession during malting and to support analysis of microbe-associated changes at the grain interface.