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Radiation has been used to breed high-yield barleys, leaf-spot-resistant peanuts; radioisotope tracers have shown the way to more effective use of fertilizers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"However, the barleys look well; but perhaps you don't understand farming?"

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

This conclusion is not entirely in agreement with the results which have been obtained by others upon foreign beers, in the preparation of which low protein barleys have been used.

From A Study Of American Beers and Ales by Tolman, L. M.

Their yield is small compared with native barleys, although this may improve when they are fully acclimatised.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William