AN AUTOMATED MICRO-MALTING UNIT FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN A BARLEY BREEDING PROGRAMME

The Application of Microsatellite Analysis in Barley Malting Quality Breeding Programmes

Leišová-Svobodová L., Tomková L., Sedláček T., Psota V., Kučera L. (2014): The application of microsatellite analysis in barley malting quality breeding programmes. Czech J. Genet. Plant Breed., 50: 268–277. A set of 43 microsatellite loci was used to characterise the malting barley varieties and breeding lines used for the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) “České pivo” (“Czech beer”) and...

Simulation of yield and quality of malting barley

A computer simulation model was developed to determine the likely response of grain yield and quality of malting barley crops to differing availability of water or nitrogen (N) and differing soil and climatic conditions. The model was validated for New Zealand conditions by comparing the results of model simulations with data from malting barley crops grown in the Manawatu. Simulations were the...

Effect of Barley yellow dwarf virus Infection on Yield and Malting Quality of Barley

Barley yellow dwarf (BYD), the most common and widespread virus disease of cereal crops worldwide (14), may be caused by any one of several Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDVs) of the family Luteoviridae. Transmitted by at least 25 aphid species (24), these viruses historically have been classified into two subgroups and five strains based on aphid vector specificity and efficiency (31). However...

Biochemical and Molecular Genetics in Breeding for Quality in Barley

To this day plant breeding is most successfully carried out emperically by crossing promising lines and by selecting high yielding plants with improved quality. Biochemical genetics provides increasing possibilities to determine the metabolic pathways leading to storage proteins, enzymes, flavonoids and fatty acids, compounds which give favourable or unfavourable quality characteristics to the ...

Barley Quality and Grain Size Homogeneity for Malting: Volume I: Agronomic Effects on Varieties Volume Ii: Assessment and Control