Geometric morphometric analysis of grain shape and the identification of two-rowed barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp distichum L.) in southern France

Open Access funded by Natural Environment Research Council Under a Creative Commons license We would like to thank Michel Lemoine (CNRS, Muséum), for his invaluable help during the carbonization of the fresh caryopses. We are also most grateful to the society Secobra for providing the fresh caryopses used in this study, to Raphaël Cornette (UMR7205) for welcoming us into the morphometric platform of the National Museum of Paris, to prof. Jean- Frédéric Terral (University Montpellier 2) for his advice and to Elizabeth Kerr (UMR7209) and Nelly Gidaszewski (UMR7205) for language editing. A. Evin acknowledges financial support from the Natural Environment Research Council, UK (grant number NE/F003382/1). Finally, we would like to thank the UMR7209 (CNRS-MNHN), for financial support.Peer reviewedPublisher PD