AWCMMP Component: Molecular biology support for barley improvement - Northern Region

Abstract

The principal aim of this project was for the Northern Barley Improvement Program (NBIP) to develop the capability to efficiently use molecular marker technologies. During the two-year time frame of this project, the routine implementation of marker technology has increased significantly from eight populations targeted for two traits in 2003, resulting in approximately 60% of lines (150 lines) assayed being positively selected, to 19 populations targeted for seven traits in addition to marker-assisted recurrent parent recovery (MARPR) in 2004, resulting in approximately 55% of lines (1,551 lines) assayed being positively selected on the basis of the marker data. This project was closely integrated with the Pedigree Mapping (PM) project (ET8, UQ00026).