Abstract: Objective]To study the relationship between morphological indexes and drought resistance during seed germination in barley is to build drought resistance evaluation method.[Method]In the experi-ment,the nine morphological indexes of barley treated by 20; (W/V)PEG8000 solution as drought stress treatment were determined.The drought resistance identification indexes of barley during seed germination were screened by correlation analysis and factor analysis and the drought resistances of 101 barley cultivars were evaluated by the method of membership function.[Result]There were significant relationships between the 9 morphological indexes and drought resistance of barley during seed germination.[Conclusion]The 9 in-dexes can be regarded as drought resistance identification index of barley during seed germination.Z027S078T and Xinyin D7 were screened as high drought resistance cultivars,while Ganpi 6 and Beilaileisi were screened as drought sensitive cultivars by the method of membership function.