Speed Breeding Greenhouse Using a speed growing technique that employs LED lights has the potential to dramatically accelerate the process of breeding better-performing crops, according to researchers at John Innes Centre in England and Australian institutions, the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney. Results of the study appeared in January in the scientific journal Nature Plants. The new speed breeding technique means that it’s now possible to grow six generations of wheat every year—a threefold increase over current growth rates. View Article
AMBA 2014 Research Funding Announced
Technical Committee (TC) representatives of the American Malting Barley Association’s (AMBA) twenty one Regular large and small brewing, malting, and distilling members, met on April 17, 2014 in Milwaukee and developed a malting barley research grant funding program of $493,850 for 25 projects for the AMBA July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 grant fiscal year.
Accelerating Barley Variety Development
April 18, 2013 – New genetic technologies are being applied to the development of barley varieties that greatly increase breeding efficiencies. Many of these technologies grew out of the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funding for the Barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) and are being used to enhance agronomic and quality traits of barley…