AMBA invests in barley research through their annual grant program
AMBA is proud to announce the newly awarded slate of projects funded through industry member investments. 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
- Glen Fox - UC-Davis: Selecting for lower endosperm-protein content improves steeping efficiency
- Harmonie Bettenhausen - University of Kentucky and Nicholas Santantonio - Virginia Tech: Development of GN-zero two-rowed winter malt barley cultivars for KY and the E. U.S. distilling industry
- Isabel Alicia del Blanco, Xiaofei Zhang - UC-Davis: Development of two-row spring malting barley
- 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
- 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
- Rich Horsley - North Dakota State University: Breeding and genetics of two-rowed malting barley
- Robert Brueggeman - Washington State University: Developing two-row spring and winter 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: Barley and malt quality evaluation for public breeding programs
- Zhaohui Liu - North Dakota State University: Investigating the expression of Bacterial Leaf Streak susceptibility genes in barley using qPCR and bacterial mutants
