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Edited By
R. von Bothmer, Department of Crop Science, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
T. van Hintum, Plant Research International, Centre for Genetic Resources, Wageningen, The Netherlands
H. Knüpffer, Genebank Department, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany
K. Sato, Barley Germplasm Center, Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan
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Developments in Plant Genetics and Breeding, 7
Description
Genetic diversity is one of the main resources sustaining human life. Food security largely depends on the availability and utilization
of this diversity, which is of strategic importance for countries and companies. Conservation and utilization of biodiversity is thus
currently an urgent area of global debate and concern.
Barley is a major crop in the world used for food, feed and malt, and with
a wide religious and ethnic importance. The crop was domesticated in Neolithic time in SW Asia and spread rapidly under cultivation to
new areas. Nowadays it is one of the most widespread and widely adapted crops grown under contrasting edaphic conditions. Adaptations
to new environments, different agricultural practices and selection for different uses have further added to the complex diversity pattern.
Is it at all possible to give a complete picture of the diversity in a crop or wild species? Are we, by adding new technologies, only
revealing parts of the diversity? Do different sets of data show similar or conflicting pictures of genetic diversity? Will the large
genome size reduce the role of barley as a model organism in these current sequencing days? Or, are there still major reasons to continue
to work with this beautiful crop?
The aim of this book is to cover the complex issue of diversification in time and space in a single
crop: barley. Leading scientists from various fields describe the entire variation pattern in different sets of characters and an attempt
is made for a synthesis to a holistic picture. The book proposes ways to use the achievements of diversity studies in future research
and breeding programmes.
Contents
Contributors. Preface.
I. Introduction.
1. Barley diversity - an introduction (R. von Bothmer, K. Sato et al.).
II. Origin of Barley Diversity.
2. The domestication of cultivated barley (R. von Bothmer, K. Sato et al.).
3. Diversification through breeding (G. Fischbeck).
III. Current Barley Diversity
. 4. Ecogeographical diversity – a
Vavilovian approach (H. Knüpffer, I. Terentyeva et al.). 5. Diversity of barley mutants (U. Lundqvist, J.D. Franckowiak).
6. Cytogenetic diversity (S. Taketa, I. Linde-Laursen, G. Künzel). 7. Molecular diversity of the barley genome (A. Graner, Å.
Bjørnstad et al.). 8. Diversity in resistance to biotic stresses (J. Weibull, U. Walther et al.). 9. Diversity
in abiotic stress tolerances (A.M. Stanca, I. Romagosa et al.). 10. Genetic diversity for quantitatively inherited agronomic
and malting
quality traits (P. Hayes, A. Castro et al.).
IV. Conservation and Future Utilization of Barley
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11. Detecting diversity - a new holistic, exploratory approach bridging
phenotype and genotype (L. Munck). 12. Diversity in ex situ genebank
collections of barley (T. van Hintum, F. Menting).
13. Summarised diversity - the Barley Core Collection (H. Knüpffer, T. van Hintum).
14. Barley diversity, an outlook (K. Sato, R. von Bothmer et al.).
Keyword list.
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Hardbound, 300 pages, publication date: JUL-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-50585-9
ISBN-10: 0-444-50585-7
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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