Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortHordeum vulgare
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | grass | Physiology | |
| Habit | erect | Category | cereals & pseudocereals, medicinals & aromatic |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | grown on large scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) | medium (50-150 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 15 | 20 | 2 | 40 | Soil texture | medium | heavy, medium, light |
| Rainfall (annual) | 500 | 1000 | 200 | 2000 | Soil fertility | moderate | low |
| Latitude | 30 | - | 55 | 70 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 4400 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | high (>10 dS/m)) |
| Soil PH | 6.5 | 7.5 | 6 | 8 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | well (dry spells) |
| Light intensity | very bright | very bright | very bright | cloudy skies | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), tropical wet (Ar), desert or arid (Bw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical humid (Cf), subtropical dry summer (Cs), subtropical dry winter (Cw), temperate oceanic (Do), temperate continental (Dc), temperate with humid winters (Df), temperate with dry winters (Dw) | Photoperiod | neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | -4 | Killing temp. early growth | 0 |
| Abiotic toler. | drought | Abiotic suscept. | fire |
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | large scale/commercial | Crop cycle | 90 | 240 |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| ley cropping | high | low | ||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| food & beverage | starch | seeds |
| food & beverage | vitamins | seeds |
| food & beverage | minerals | seeds |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | bark |
| animal food (feed) | vitamins | seeds |
| medicinal | digestive system applications | seeds |