six-row barley
six-rowed barley
hordeum vulgar latin

The six-row barley for this whisky comes from the foothills of the Himalayas.

A combination of two- and six-row barley malt was also chosen specifically for this recipe.

First, the pool of Fusarium-resistant germplasm is severely limited, especially for six-row barley.

Finlandia vodka is produced from Finnish-grown six-row barley and pure glacial spring water.

Six-row barley was traditionally used in US beers, but both varieties are in common usage now.

Recent genetic studies have revealed that a mutation in one gene, vrs1, is responsible for the transition from two-row to six-row barley.

In six-row barley, both the lateral florets and the central floret bear grains, making the plant much more productive.

Because six-row barley produces more grains, under normal conditions it would be expected to out-compete two-row barley.

A pair of mutations (one dominant, the other recessive) result in fertile lateral spikelets to produce six-row barleys.

Bere, a six-row barley currently cultivated mainly on 5-15 hectares of land in Orkney, Scotland.

Two-row barley has a lower protein content than six-row barley, thus a more fermentable sugar content.

The underived word bære survives in the north of Scotland as bere, and refers to a specific strain of six-row barley grown there.

Passage of six-row barley and durum wheat through the digestive tract of captive female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) was assessed in two experiments.

They cultivated six-row barley, einkorn and emmer wheat, jujubes and dates, and herded sheep, goats and cattle.

Shorter in height than other six-row barleys grown at that time, it is high-yielding with medium-early maturity, moderately strong straw, smooth awns and long rachilla hairs.

Adjuncts entered United States brewing as a means of thinning out the body of U.S. beers, balancing the large quantities of protein introduced by six-row barley.

Wheat (emmer) and six-row barley formed the basic crops, together with millet, rye and oats, peas, broad beans, lentils, and gold of pleasure (Camelina sativa).

The successive cultures living at Qasr Ibrim must have had access to six-row barley, so why did they persist in growing an apparently more primitive, less productive variety of the crop?

Some six-row barleys have been cut on light land south of Worcester, but little else has come under the knife, according to John Sturt of Midland Shires Farmers.

CW Six-Row Barley CWB, Sample Select CW Six-Row acct.

Six-row barley is common in some American lager-style beers, especially when adjuncts such as corn and rice are used, whereas two-row malted summer barley is preferred for traditional German beers.

His pet project is five-grain bourbon made in part from plump two-row barley, which he said yielded a richer tasting beer (and, thus, richer whiskey) than the more commonly used six-row barley.

These German brewers developed their beers from the American six-row barley which has a higher tannic acid and protein content and greater husk per weight than continental European barleys (two-row barley).

At the Koskenkorva facility in western Finland, initial distillation of the fermented six-row barley takes place in seven columns with an average height of 25 meters using Altia's multi-pressure distilling system.

The researchers suggest that new cultures initially may have tried growing six-row barley upon arriving in the region, but then adopted the preceding culture's two-row barley when they saw that it grew better in the local conditions.

The named varietal standard of quality has been changed to B1602 for the malting grades of six-rowed barley.

Two-rowed barley was the older, hulled form; six-rowed barley was unhulled and easier to thresh, and since the kernels remained intact, store for longer periods.

These ancient cultures utilised crops best suited to their environmental situation for centuries; rather than the much more popular six-rowed barley, they used a successful low-grain-number yield crop which could cope far better with water stress.'

In the present work, QTL analysis was applied on two recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations derived from two- and six-rowed barley genotypes with different levels of partial resistance to barley leaf stripe.

Of the three STSs, two retained the RAPD polymorphism as dominant-recessive markers between 'Kanto Nakate Gold' (KNG; a two-rowed barley) and 'Azumamugi' (AZ; a six-rowed barley), while the other was co-dominant after digestion with restriction enzymes.