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Barley has been a staple in the agricultural world for many years due its many health benefits, e.g., better control of glucose levels, blood pressure, bad cholesterol, and weight gain (Whole Grains Council in Health benefits of barley, 2013). Suggested medical applications for barley currently under investigation include use as a low-cost biological catalyst (Nagaoka in Biotechnol Prog 20(1):128–133, 2004), use as a host for the production of endotoxin-free recombinant proteins (Magnusdottir et al. in Trends Biotechnol 31(10):572–580, 2013) and use as a potential source of improved water sanitation through algal inhibition (Xiao et al. in Environ Microbiol 16(5):1238–1251, 2013).
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Arias, S., Bhatia, S.K. (2015). Barley. In: Medical Applications for Biomaterials in Bolivia. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16775-6_2
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