Biotechnological Approaches to Barley Improvement

<p>Section I. Agricultural challenges and approaches to barley improvement</p><p> </p><p>1 The world importance of barley and challenges to further improvements</p><p>Harold Verstegen, Otto Köneke, Viktor Korzun and Reinhard von Broock</p><p> </p><p>2 Genetic diversity and germplasm management - wild barley, landraces, breeding materials</p><p>Kazuhiro Sato, Andrew Flavell, Joanne Russell, Andreas Börner and Jan Valkoun</p><p> </p><p>3 Domestication </p><p>Takao Komatsuda </p><p> </p><p>4 Shoot and inflorescence architecture</p><p>Laura Rossini, Ron Okagaki, Arnis Druka and Gary J. Muehlbauer</p><p> </p><p>5 Genetic control of reproductive development</p><p>Benedikt Drosse, Chiara Campoli, Aman Mulki and Maria von Korff</p><p> </p><p>6 Improvement of mineral nutrition: a source and sink for candidate genes</p><p>Benjamin Gruber and Nicolaus von Wirén </p><p> </p><p>7 Photosynthesis and Leaf Senescence as Determinants of Plant Productivity</p><p>Per L. Gregersen, Christine H. Foyer and Karin Krupinska </p><p> </p><p>8 Grain development </p><p>Winfriede Weschke and Hans Weber</p><p> </p><p>9 Drought stress tolerance mechanisms in barley and its relevance to cereals</p><p>Polavarpu B Kavi Kishor, Kalladan Rajesh, Palakolanu S Reddy, Christiane Seiler and Nese Sreenivasulu</p><p> </p><p>10 Response to viral pathogens </p><p>Frank Ordon, Thomas Kühne </p><p> </p><p>11 Host- and nonhost response to attack by fungal pathogens </p><p>Patrick Schweizer </p><p> </p><p>12 Response to phytophagous arthropods</p><p>Isabel Diaz, Inés Cambra, M. Estrella Santamaría, Pablo González-Melendi, Manuel Martínez</p><p> </p><p>13 Molecular Farming </p><p>Einar Mäntylä and Björn L. Örvar</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Section II. Recent progress in methodology</p><p> </p><p>14 Development of sequence resources</p><p>Nils Stein </p><p> </p><p>15 Induced genetic variation, TILLING and NGS-based cloning</p><p>Silvio Salvi, Arnis Druka, Sara Giulia Milner, Damian Gruszka</p><p> </p><p>16 Modulation of meiotic recombination </p><p>Luke Ramsay, Isabelle Colas, Robbie Waugh</p><p> </p><p>17 The secondary genepool of barley – Hordeum bulbosum: Gene Introgression and Homoeologous Recombination</p><p>Brigitte Ruge-Wehling, Peter Wehling </p><p> </p><p>18 Genome wide association scans (GWAS)</p><p>Robbie Waugh, Bill Thomas, Andrew Flavell, Luke Ramsay, Jordi Comadran and Joanne Russell </p><p> </p><p>19 Genomic selection in barley breeding</p><p>Karl Schmid and Patrick Thorwarth</p><p> </p><p>20 Haploid technology </p><p>Jochen Kumlehn </p><p> </p><p>21 Genetic engineering </p><p>Jochen Kumlehn, Maia Gurushidze and Götz Hensel</p><p> </p><p>22 Whole plant phenomics </p><p>Mark Crowe, Timothy J. March, Joanne Tilbrook </p><p> </p><p> </p>