Preventing the introduction of weeds into the farming system through sowing of clean seeds is an essential component of weed management. The weed seed contamination of cleaned grain and herbicide resistance levels of the recovered weed seeds were examined in a study conducted across 74 farms in the Western Australian grainbelt. Most farmers grew and conserved their own crop seed. The majority o...

The influence of plant roots and the associated rhizosphere activities on decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM), the rhizosphere priming effect, has emerged as a crucial mechanism regulating global carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles. However, the role of root morphology in controlling the rhizosphere priming effect remains largely unknown. To investigate the link between root hairs, a crit...

The evaluation of both the genetic variation and the identification of salinity tolerant accessions of Tibetan annual wild barley (hereafter referred to as Tibetan barley) (Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. Spontaneum and H. vulgare L. ssp. agriocrithum) are essential for discovering and exploiting novel alleles involved in salinity tolerance. In this study, we examined tissue dry biomass and the Na(+) a...

Soil drying enhances root ABA accumulation and rhizosheath formation, but whether mediates formation is unclear. Here, we used the ABA-deficient mutant Az34 to investigate molecular morphological changes by which could affect formation. Mild soil with intermittent watering increased promoting hair elongation. Attenuated in barley constrained promotion of length soil, such that had a smaller rhi...

This article represents some current thinking and objectives in the use of molecular markers to abiotic stress tolerance. Barley has been chosen for study as it is an important crop species, as well as a model for genetic and physiological studies. It is an important crop and, because of its well-studied genetics and physiology, is an excellent candidate in which to devise more efficient breedi...

knowledge about genetic diversity is an essential step towards conservation of genetic resources and developing further strategies for plant improvement. the objective of this research was to evaluate the agronomical and morphological traits and determine the level of variation within wild barley ecotypes especially for acclimation traits. in this study 188 ecotypes of wild barley (hordeumspont...

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the main crops cultivated all over world. As for other cereals, throughout centuries barley was subjected by human breeding to genetic erosion phenomena, which guaranteed improved yields in organized (and then mechanized) agriculture; on hand, this selection weakened ability survive under adverse environments. Currently, it clear that climate change require...