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Looking for a better beer or single malt Scotch whiskey?
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside may have you covered. They are among a group of 77 scientists worldwide who have sequenced the complete genome of barley, a key ingredient in beer and single malt Scotch. The research, 10 years in the making, was just published in the journal Nature.
"This takes the level of completeness of the barley genome up a huge notch," said Timothy Close, a professor of genetics at UC Riverside. "It makes it much easier for researchers working with barley to be focused on attainable objectives, ranging from new variety development through breeding to mechanistic studies of genes."
The research will also aid scientists working with other "cereal crops," including rice, wheat, rye, maize, millet, sorghum, oats and even turfgrass, which like the other food crops, is in the grass family, Close said.
Source: https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/46631
Journal Reference:
Martin Mascher, et. al., A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome, Nature (27 April 2017), doi:10.1038/nature22043
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday April 28 2017, @11:03PM (3 children)
Beer is so awesome they even had mainstream childrens' shows show kids how to drink beer [youtube.com] (especially in the park, while evading cops).
Now scotch, on the other hand, is liquid ass. It is the drink of a man with a resinous heart, with a taste as nasty and bitter as his soul. Prove me wrong!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 29 2017, @12:42AM (2 children)
Scotch isn't harsh, you're just a pussy.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 29 2017, @01:23AM (1 child)
Hey man, that's not really fair, we did drink scotch.
After the beer was gone, we'd go for the liquor. After that was gone, we'd go for the liqueur (Kahlua, Creme de Menthe, etc.). After that was gone, we'd go for the wine. After that was gone, we'd go after the ethylene glycol. After that was gone, we'd go for the inhalants. After those were gone we'd go for the Jenkem. And only after all those were gone, only the few of us who were left standing would stoop so low as to reach for the 15 year single-barrel scotch.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 29 2017, @07:02AM
Ooooh, drunken dickweed fight! Whoever loses, we win!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:17AM
There were three men
Came from the west
Their fortunes for to tell,
And the life of John Barleycorn
As well.
They laid him in three furrows deep,
Laid clods upon his head,
Then these three man made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn was dead.
The let him die for a very long time
Till the rain from heaven did fall,
Then little Sir John sprang up his head
And he did amaze them all.
They let him stand till the midsummer day,
Till he looked both pale and wan.
The little Sir John he grew a long beard
And so became a man.
They have hired men with the scythes so sharp,
To cut him off at the knee,
The rolled him and they tied him around the waist,
They served him barbarously.
They have hired men with the crab-tree sticks,
To cut him skin from bone,
And the miller has served him worse than that,
For he's ground him between two stones.
They've wheeled him here, they've wheeled him there,
They've wheeled him to a barn,
And thy have served him worse than that,
They've bunged him in a vat.
They have worked their will on John Barleycorn
But he lived to tell the tale,
For they pour him out of an old brown jug
And they call him home brewed ale.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 29 2017, @03:42AM
Someone needs to do their homework. In fact, it's believed that the first beers probably weren't barley beers.
Even today, people make beer with all sorts of maltable grains, for reasons of flavour, cost and other attributes such as process management.