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A Practical Guide to Barley Crossing
Barley is naturally an inbreeding hermaphrodite plant so that each generation resembles its parental generation. New variation can be introduced by crossing parents that complement each other for desirable or ...
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Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis)
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) breeding is described with respect to modern challenges facing the oil palm industry. Elaeis guineensis is native to Africa, but now rings the globe as a tropical commodity oil crop. ...
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Objectives
Salinity affects soil, water and crop plants. The severity of soil salinity needs to be determined in order to make informed decisions on best crop** practices. Likewise, the tolerance of crop cultivars need...
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Protocol for Screening for Salt Tolerance in Rice
A simple protocol is presented that tests salt tolerance in rice seedlings. The method is based on a glasshouse hydroponics test in which salt is added to the nutrient hydroponic solution in which the seedling...
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Introduction
Salinity is a major abiotic stress limiting crop yields in many parts of the world. The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) Land and Plant Nutrition Management service estimates that over 400 million hecta...
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Protocol for measuring soil salinity
A simple protocol is described that tests soil salinity. Water-soluble salts are extracted from soil samples and salt content measured. Accurate field evaluations require sampling at various field locations an...
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Protocol for Screening for Salt Tolerance in Barley and Wheat
A simple protocol is presented that tests salt tolerance in wheat and barley seedlings. The method is based on a glasshouse, aerated hydroponics test in which salt is added to the nutrient hydroponic solution ...
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Open AccessMorphological, genetic and molecular characteristics of barley root hair mutants
Root hairs are tubular outgrowths of specialized epidermal cells called trichoblasts. They affect anchoring plants in soil, the uptake of water and nutrients and are the sites of the interaction between plants...
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Open AccessProduction of haploids and doubled haploids in oil palm
Oil palm is the world's most productive oil-food crop despite yielding well below its theoretical maximum. This maximum could be approached with the introduction of elite F1 varieties. The development of such eli...
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Foreword: Gametic cells and molecular breeding for crop improvement
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The effect of semi-dwarf genes on root system size in field-grown barley
Root system size (RSS) was measured in 12 diverse barley genotypes and 157 double-haploid lines (DHs), using electric capacitance. The parents of the DHs, Derkado and B83-12/21/5, carry different semi-dwarfing...
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A high-throughput DNA extraction method for barley seed
A non-destructive, quick DNA extraction method for barley seed is described. The method is simple and consists of drilling out a sample from the seed, adding sodium hydroxide, heating in a microwave oven and n...
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Salinity induced differences in growth, ion distribution and partitioning in barley between the cultivar Maythorpe and its derived mutant Golden Promise
Dry matter changes and ion partitioning in two near isogenic barley cultivars Maythorpe (relatively salt sensitive) and Golden Promise (relatively salt tolerant) were studied in response to increasing salinity...
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Analysis of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in wild barley from the Fertile Crescent: associations with ecology, geography and flowering time
Wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch, is the progenitor of cultivated barley, Hordeum vulgare. The centre of diversity is in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East, where wild barley grows in a wide range of co...
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Mutation genetics of salt tolerance in barley: An assessment of Golden Promise and other semi-dwarf mutants
A review of research at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) on the effects of semi-dwarfing genes on salt tolerance in barley is given. Work began in1993 with the fortuitous and unexpected result that ...
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Studies on Wild Barley, Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch at the Scottish Crop Research Institute
Barley is a model species at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) for studies in genetics, physiology, ecology and breeding. Wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch is a key resource in these studies. The ...
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Extraction and genetic control of two new water-soluble proteins of mature barley seed
This paper describes the genetic control of two new water-soluble proteins in barley. Water-soluble proteins (WSPs) of mature barley seed form part of the albumin/globulin class of seed proteins. They can be e...
