In recent years, recurrent droughts have significantly affected spring barley production, reducing the quantity and quality of grain. This study aims to identify genotype-specific traits and the drought resilience of six different L. (spring barley) genotypes, while also examining the potential of potassium application and fungal endophyte inoculation to mitigate the negative effects of dry periods during the growing season.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWheat and barley genera represent a wide range of genotypes from Triticeae group grown around the globe. The broad plasticity of Triticeae phenotypes mirrors the robustness of their genomes revealing a high level of gene homeology. Publication and annotation of the reference genome sequences for spring barley Morex and Chinese Spring wheat represents an important milestone enabling the researchers to precisely identify and annotate nearly all proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe main problems of crop gene banks comprise heterogeneity of accessions, resulting from mechanical admixtures or out-crossing during their multiplication, and especially the mislabeling of accessions. These discrepancies can adversely affect the results of many expensive research and breeding projects that are based on the use of gene bank resources. To tackle these problems, 860 single-plant progenies (SPPs) of 172 accessions of the Czech winter barley core collection were grown and tested with a set of 53 isolates representing the global virulence/avirulence diversity of powdery mildew.
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November 2006
A cross-sectional field study on the prevalence of Dicrocoelium dendriticum was performed in the Emmental. The study included 211 bovines, 170 equines, 20 ovines, 46 caprines and 23 rabbits (from 119 farms). In addition, laboratory routine diagnostic data obtained from 2.
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