Barley has been cultivated for more than 10,000 years. Barley improvement studies always have the privilege of the breeders and scientists. This review is expected to provide a resource for researchers interested in barley improvement research in terms of mutation breeding, tissue culture, gene transfers, gene editing, molecular markers, transposons, epigenetic, genomic studies and system biolo...

Amelioration of cardiovascular risk through a high intake of dietary fibre was originally highlighted by Ancel Keys and colleagues in the Journal of Nutrition in 1960 (Keys et al. 1960). More than 45 years later there is a growing body of evidence supporting the association between intake of whole grains and decreased incidence of fatal and nonfatal CHD (Liu et al. 1999; Steffen et al. 2003; Je...

The present study was conducted to measure the flow of microbial and nonmicrobial N fractions entering the omasal canal of lactating dairy cows fed grass-red clover silage supplemented with barley and rapeseed meal. Four ruminally cannulated Finnish Ayrshire dairy cows were fed, in a 4 x 4 Latin square design, grass-red clover silage alone or supplemented with (on DM basis) 5.1 kg/d of barley, ...

Colinearity of a large region from barley (Hordeum vulgare) chromosome 5H and rice (Oryza sativa) chromosome 3 has been demonstrated by mapping of several common restriction fragment-length polymorphism clones on both regions. One of these clones, WG644, was hybridized to rice and barley bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries to select homologous clones. One BAC from each species with ...

A 2 × 2 factorial experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of cereal type (barley v. oat) and exogenous enzyme supplementation (with or without) on intestinal fermentation, and on indole and skatole levels in the intestinal content and the adipose tissue in finisher boars. The experimental treatments were as follows: (i) barley-based diet, (ii) barley-based diet with enzyme supplemen...

Full- and partial-length cDNAs encoding calmodulin mRNA have been cloned and sequenced from barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Barley leaf mRNA, size-fractionated in sucrose density gradients, was used to synthesize double-stranded cDNA. The cDNA was cloned in lambdagt10 and screened with a synthetic, 14-nucleotide oligonucleotide probe, which was designed using the predicted coding sequences of the ...

Amarowicz R., Żegarska Z., Pegg R. B., Karamać M., Kosińska A. (2007): Antioxidant and radical scavenging activities of a barley crude extract and its fraction. Czech J. Food Sci., 25: 73–80. Phenolic compounds were extracted from the Candle variety of hull-less waxy barley with 80% (v/v) methanol to yield a crude preparation. Seven fractions (I–VII) were separated from the barley extract so ob...

Plants simultaneously interact with a plethora of species both belowground and aboveground, which can result in indirect effects mediated by plants. Studies incorporating plant genetic variation indicate that indirect effects mediated by plants may be a significant factor influencing the ecology and evolution of species within a community. Here, we present findings of a Quantitative Trait Locus...

MORC1 and MORC2, two of the seven members of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) Compromised Recognition of Turnip CrinkleVirus1 subfamily ofmicrorchidiaGyrase,Heat ShockProtein90,HistidineKinase,MutL (GHKL)ATPases,were previously shown to be required in multiple layers of plant immunity. Here, we show that the barley (Hordeum vulgare) MORCs also are involved in disease resistance. Genome-wi...

Three hundred and sixty one-day-old chicks (Arian) were used in a completely randomized design with five treatments and four replicates for each treatment. The experimental treatments included: control group (without barley) with and without enzyme, 20% hulled barley with and without enzyme, 20% hull-less barley with and without enzyme. Body weights, feed intake and feed conversion were determi...