Well, IF only Pakistan put in money on research! We have really good wheat and rice!
The work was partially hanging because of a Pakistani mate who was doing PhD and collecting the phenotypes...HE DIDN'T record them systematically so 1 of my set of markers was PERFECT the others were all bizarre
Hence, I was given a degree for my 1 set and no publication could come out of it as the phenotype was rubbish! So, there were doubts if the 1st set was a coincidence!
Why does Pak govt send rubbish people to work and destroy any chance of a collaboration or any form of success in research! That GUY was doign PhD for 7 years on Pak govt funding! Which laanti insaan does such thing? Waste his county's money?
And since he was a shitty researcher he made sure every new person who came on to work on barley got rubbish results...Khud RUBBISH kera hai and when has to teach the new comers he teaches them rubbish!
They should cage such shameless researchers!
As for now, all we know is Pak barley (can't say for all varieties but the 1 I worked on was from Skardu) has a lot of fiber, it is healthy and it can decrease blood glucose levels (clinical trials were successful)
Now we are trying to publish that data but cant because the results are questionable!