Biotechnological Approaches to Barley Improvement

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kumlehn, Jochen (Editor), Stein, Nils (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, 69
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Genetic engineering.; Agriculture.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Genetic Engineering.

This volume offers an up-to-date overview of biotechnologically oriented barley research. It is structured into two major sections: the first focusing on current agricultural challenges and approaches to barley improvement, and the second providing insights into recent advances in methodology. Leadi...

Table of Contents:

• The world importance of barley and challenges to further improvements
• Genetic diversity and germplasm management - wild barley, landraces, breeding materials
• Domestication
• Shoot and inflorescence architecture
• Genetic control of reproductive development
• Improvement of mineral nutrition: a source and sink for candidate genes
•  Photosynthesis and Leaf Senescence as Determinants of Plant Productivity
• Grain development
• Drought stress tolerance mechanisms in barley and its relevance to cereals
• Response to viral pathogens
• Host- and nonhost response to attack by fungal pathogens
• Response to phytophagous arthropods
• Molecular Farming
• Development of sequence resources
• Induced genetic variation, TILLING and NGS-based cloning
• Modulation of meiotic recombination
• The secondary genepool of barley – Hordeum bulbosum: Gene Introgression and Homoeologous Recombination
• Genome wide association scans (GWAS)
• Genomic selection in barley breeding
• Haploid technology
• Genetic engineering
• Whole plant phenomics.