Biotechnological Approaches to Barley Improvement /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kumlehn, Jochen. (Editor), Stein, Nils. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, 69
Subjects:
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.