Direct comparison of β-glucan content in wild and cultivated barley

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Table 1. β-Glucan content of wild and cultivated barley accessions.

Wild barley				Cultivated barley
Country	Accession ID	β-Glucan % (Mean ± SD)		Country	Accession ID	β-Glucan % (Mean ± SD)
Israel	ISR_MtG_1	5.00	± 0.45	USA	Steptoe	4.14	± 0.18
Israel	ISR_MtG_2	4.28	± 0.08	USA	Morex	4.43	± 0.11
Israel	ISR_MHL_1	4.82	± 0.45	Canada	Harrington	3.69	± 0.27
Israel	ISR_MHL_2	6.40	± 0.59	Canada	Chopais	3.23	± 0.07
Israel	ISR_TBS_1	3.34	± 0.64	Europe	Optic	3.43	± 0.09
Israel	ISR_TBS_2	3.96	± 0.14	Europe	Century	3.86	± 0.04
Palestine	PSE_IG38936	5.28	± 0.22	Europe	Prior	3.83	± 0.01
Palestine	PSE_IG39565	5.99	± 0.29	Australia	Clipper	3.45	± 0.13
Palestine	PSE_IG39630	6.72	± 0.00	Australia	Tallon	3.12	± 0.04
Jordan	JOR_KFH_1	3.53	± 0.07	Germany	Triumph	4.09	± 0.17
Jordan	JOR_KFH_2	3.63	± 0.65	UK	Golden Promise	2.84	± 0.08
Jordan	JOR_KMH_1	4.04	± 0.42	Korea	Pgolbori	4.41	± 0.05
Jordan	JOR_KMH_2	3.26	± 0.16	Korea	Chae-Rae-Baec	3.75	± 0.10
Jordan	JOR_ISH_1	4.41	± 0.33	Korea	Baec-Meac	3.18	± 0.11
Jordan	JOR_ISH_2	6.52	± 0.19	Norway	Noga	4.11	± 0.65
Lebanon	LBN_IG110833	4.86	± 0.84	ICARDA	Atahualpa	3.17	± 0.03
Lebanon	LBN_IG40184	4.62	± 0.23	India	Mianwali	4.53	± 0.35
Lebanon	LBN_IG110823	5.17	± 0.05	India	Multan	4.14	± 0.22
Syria	SYR_IG39859	5.07	± 0.04	Japan	Sumire Mochi	6.15	± 0.07
Syria	SYR_IG39880	4.79	± 0.08	Japan	Mitsukiko	4.74	± 0.10
Syria	SYR_IG39918	4.19	± 0.46	China	Yunyin Barley	4.04	± 0.02
Turkey	TUR_IG39838	5.94	± 0.52	China	Xiu	3.45	± 0.08
Turkey	TUR_IG39839	7.67	± 0.36	China	Ganpi	3.47	± 0.01
Turkey	TUR_IG116112	7.51	± 0.59	China	Shanghai	3.28	± 0.03
Pakistan	PAK_IG39852	4.12	± 0.63	Sweden	Swanneck	3.60	± 0.05
Pakistan	PAK_IG38693	5.78	± 0.72	Israel	BMC	2.68	± 0.04
Afghanistan	AFG_IG38660	7.43	± 0.26	Syria	Arabi Abiad	3.85	± 0.04
Tajikistan	TJK_IG131790	7.01	± 0.78	Syria	Tadmor	3.91	± 0.06
Turkmenistan	TMK_IG38821	5.77	± 0.24
Tibet	TBT_TBT_1	4.73	± 0.04
Tibet	TBT_TBT_2	5.51	± 0.11
Tibet	TBT_TBT_3	4.24	± 0.08

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of β-glucan content of wild and cultivated barley accessions.

	Type of barley
Descriptive statistics	Wild	Cultivated
Mean	5.17	3.72
Standard error of mean	0.22	0.10
Standard deviation	1.25	0.52
Variance	1.55	0.27
Skewness	0.468	−0.009
Standard error of skewness	0.414	0.448
Kurtosis	−0.648	−0.550
Standard error of kurtosis	0.809	0.872
Range	4.41	2.06
Minimum	3.26	2.68
Maximum	7.67	4.74
CV %	24.18%	13.99%

Figure 1. Variation of β-glucan content of wild and cultivated barley.

Figure 2. Dendrogram of average linkage of β-glucan content in (a) wild barley and (b) cultivated barley.

Figure 3. Comparison of β-glucan content of wild and cultivated barley in current and previous studies.