AMBA invests in barley research through their annual grant program
The American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) research grant program is directed at meeting its mission to encourage and support an adequate supply of high quality malting barley for the malting, brewing, distilling, and food industries and to increase our understanding of malting barley. AMBA’s direct investment, supported by member dues, augments state and federal funds allocated for barley research.
The core of AMBA’s research program is applied barley breeding and related support programs, including basic research. Other support is provided for research projects on diseases, insect pests, variety evaluation, production, management, and malting quality. Significant progress has been realized in the improvement of malting barley varieties as a result of the collaborative efforts of state and federal research facilities and industry partners. At the same time, there is always the need for new varieties that reduce the risk to the grower, provide improved quality characteristics to the end-user, and remain competitive with other crop options.
AMBA is proud to announce the newly awarded slate of projects, which features some new collaborators and provides continued support for many of the public barley breeders. You can read more about the AMBA research grant program at their website.
MEMBERS ONLY: You can review the full list of grant proposals here.
- Brian Steffenson - University of Minnesota: Investigations on barley diseases and their control and development of two-rowed malting barley germplasm with low temperature tolerance
- Brook Wilke, James DeDecker - Michigan State University: Improving profitability of winter barley in the Great Lakes Region
- Eric Stockinger - Ohio State University, Wooster: Winter growth habit recombinant inbred and backcross line populations for increasing resiliency to environmental variables caused by extreme weather in winter malting barley - a multiple strategy breeding approach
- Glen Fox - UC-Davis: How the total amount of endosperm storage protein influences malt modification
- Harmonie Bettenhausen, Brad Berron - University of Kentucky: Establishing a path to locally sourced GN0 barley for Kentucky distillers and educational engagement
- Heather Darby - University of Vermont: Malting barley varietal evaluation for the Northeast
- Isabel Alicia del Blanco, Xiaofei Zhang - UC-Davis: Development of two-row spring malting barley with enhanced resilience and superior quality
- Jamie Sherman, et al. - Montana State University: Barley breeding for Montana: Ensuring a stable malt supply with new traits to improve quality
- Jared Spackman - University of Idaho; Joseph Jensen - Montana State University; Brady Goettl - North Dakota State University: Optimizing nitrogen inputs to reduce scope 3 emissions in barley production in Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota
- Jerry Clark - University of Wisconsin: Sustainable Wisconsin malting barley production
- Katherine Frels - University of Nebraska: Winter-hardy 2-row malting barley cultivar development for the great plains
- Kevin Smith - University of Minnesota: Two-row barley improvement — University of Minnesota
- Kevin Smith - University of Minnesota: National evaluation of winter malting barley
- Margaret Krause - Oregon State University: Optimizing disease resistance, low temperature tolerance, and water sensitivity via accelerated development of two-row winter and facultative malting barley varieties
- Nicholas Santantonio - Virginia Tech: Development of two-row winter malt barley cultivars for the eastern U.S.
- Rich Horsley - North Dakota State University: Breeding and genetics of two-rowed malting barley
- Robert Brueggeman - Washington State University: Developing two-row malting varieties for the Pacific Northwest
- Ruth Dill-Macky - University of Minnesota: Management and epidemiology of barley diseases
- Tom Baldwin - North Dakota State University: Management and innovative research on economically important barley diseases
- Zhao Jin - North Dakota State University: Critical levels of key phytohormones and enzymatic activities indicating preharvest sprouting damage in two-rowed spring barley
- Zhaohui Liu - North Dakota State University: Investigating the expression of Bacterial Leaf Streak susceptibility genes in barley using qPCR and bacterial mutants
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