Can investigation of landraces provide us with a better understanding of traits that could be used to improve crop salinity tolerance?
Tag - Hordeum vulgare
William Salter
Root hairs offer benefit during drought without decreasing yield in good years
This makes them an ideal target for breeders looking to up resilience without bringing down productivity.
Erin Zimmerman
Scottish barley may have the genes to aid cultivars in marginal lands
Botanists have been examining the genomes of Scottish varieties of barley to see if they can pass its ability to manage manganese to popular cultivars.
Fi Gennu
Ancient barley landraces adapted to marginal soils are tolerant to manganese limitation
Locally adapted landraces provide unique genetic resources to raise grain yields in poorly-fertile marginal soils. Schmidt et al. evaluate the tolerance to manganese deficiency for a population of genetically diverse...
Alex Assiry
Ethylene modulates root cortical senescence in barley
Root cortical senescence (RCS) is a poorly understood phenomenon with implications for adaptation to edaphic stress. Schneider et al. demonstrate that ethylene modulates RCS.
botanyone
The development of Ramularia leaf spot disease in barley
The fungus Ramularia collo-cygni (Ascomycotina) has recently become an important pathogen of barley (Hordeum vulgare), causing leaf spotting on upper leaves. McGrann and Brown studied the factors that cause this fungus...
Light quality, volatile emissions and plant–plant interactions
Mimicking the proximity of neighbouring plants using a supplemental far-red light treatment on plants.
AJ Cann
Phenotype instability modification by auxin inhibitors and 2,4-D
Based on the phenotypic instability observed in Barley, definite trends in the development of ectopic flower structures can be outlined.
Developmental changes in root hydraulics (Research in Context)
A study of barley plants during the early stages of vegetative development (9–28 d old) to determine by what means root water uptake is increased.
AM fungi and P acquisition by hemiparasitic Pedicularis
A study of Pedicularis rex and P. tricolor finds that AM colonization is low, and less than 1 % of total plant P is taken up from the soil via the AM fungus.
HvAACT1 increases Al3+-tolerance in wheat and barley
Genetically modifying barley and wheat to express the barley gene HvAACT1 gene has potential to alleviate the effects of aluminium toxicity in acid soils.
