Genome map to play '˜key role' in barley breeding
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The completion of a project to map the barley genome will play a major role in helping breeders produce varieties better able to withstand pests and disease and deal with adverse environmental conditions such as drought and heat stress.
That was the view of leading plant scientist Professor Robbie Waugh, of Scotland’s James Hutton Institute and the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Dundee, who spearheaded the sequencing work which is published in the prestigious science journal Nature today.
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