Breeding & Genetics
Malting variety development
Updates on high yielding varieties with exceptional quality
Food, feed, and forage variety development
Alba, Verdant, Streaker and what barley foods can do for you.
Winterhardiness, water use efficiency, and nitrogen use efficiency
Making the most stress tolerant cereal even better.
Triticeae CAP
Resistance to stripe rust, stem rust and other diseases 
Data, reports, and posters
All the numbers you could ask for.
Food, Feed & Forage
FEATURES
- Alba winter feed barley
- Streaker winter food barley
- Verdant winter hooded barley - released 2010 and licensed to Tri-State Seed
Winter Food Barley
Winter Food Barley Breeding:
EVENTS
- Barley and Friends Field Day May 9; Corvallis, OR
- Kneading Conference - West Sep. 15 - 17; Mt. Vernon, WA
REPORTS
- Oregon Winter Food Barley - 2011. Report to our sponsor: the Idaho Barley Commission
- Whole grain research - the barley chapter at OSU
- Oregon Winter Food Barley - Power Point and data summary on advanced lines: 3-2010
- Idaho Barley Report (Spring/Summer 2009 Edition, Vol. 20.Number 1). A thumbnail description of the OSU winter food barley breeding program (page 3) and a profile of the Idaho barley breeding and genetics effort (page 1)
DATA SUMMARIES
POSTERS
PUBLICATIONS
- "What barley foods can do for you" - Perspectives on the nutritional properties of food barley and OSU's efforts to make it even better.
LINKS
- Barley is Better - Walt and Rosemary Newman's Barley Foods Blog.
- Beer and Bread become one - from Chewswise
- Bringing Food Chemistry to Life - THE blog for barley breads (and lots more)
- Canadian Food Barley
- Good Eats Barley Episode
- Dr. Weil's seven reasons to eat barley
- Idaho Barley Commission
- National Barley Foods Council
Winter Forage Barley
Winter Forage Barley Breeding
"Verdant" winter hooded forage barley released and licensed to Tri-State Seed
FEATURES
Malting & Brewing
Winter Malting Barley Breeding
FEATURES
- Water sensitivity - text; data. One toe in the pool
- OR 76 and OR 81 - classics. Contact us for updates!
- Hull-less winter barley for malt? - it seems like a great idea
- Semi-dwarf winter malting germplasm - stay tuned. Even better stuff in store
- A curtain call for BC47? (Why not? A 2-row with a 6-row profile; a spring barley on a winter barley web page..)
- 2012 OSU Winter Malting Barley Crossing Block
Reports and Data
ANNUAL REPORTS
DATA SUMMARIES
- 2012 - Nursery list
- 2011 harvest
- all agronomic data (by location)
- all malting quality data (updated 4/3/2012 - by location)
- malting quality in most promising OSU germplasm (as of 10/2011:will update with 2011 harvest data)
- focus on food quality and agronomic performance in the Mag 7 winter waxy germplasm
COMMENTARY
- "What's your barley" - Why not use winter 6-row malting barley?
PRESENTATIONS
- Hot news from cold places. Next Generation Barley. San Diego, CA. January 2012.
- What is barley, and why in Oregon? NASS. Portland, OR. Februrary 2012.
Stripe Rust Initiative
FEATURES
- Information for resistance QTL MAS
- Markers, maps, and protocols for MAS of resistance alleles in the iBISON/BISON germplasm: Cited in Verhoeven et al. 2010. Registration of the BISON genetic stocks in Hordeum vulgare L. J. Plant Reg.
- SNP haplotype and phenotypic data for BISON germplasm: Cited in Verhoeven et al. 2010. Registration of the BISON genetic stocks inHordeum vulgare L. J. Plant Reg.
- Kurtford conversion germplasm
PUBLICATIONS
Triticeae CAP
What is The Triticeae CAP (T-CAP)?
Oregon State University T-CAP activities
- Low temperature tolerance (LTT)
- Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
- Water use efficiency (WUE)
- Overview
Barley stripe rust resistance (BSRR)
Winterhardiness Research
Winterhardiness Research (see our TCAP page for more on WUE and NUE)
Primers and protocols for genotyping of "winter genes" - as referenced in vonZitzewitz et al. 2011. The Plant Genome. 4:79-91. Prepared by Tanya Filichkin
Documents
USDA-CSREES-AFRI Project "Simultaneous Genetic Analysis Of Winter Hardiness Traits And Development Of Winter Malting Barley Varieties".
Also known as they the "Oregon:Nebraska (OrNe) Project"
- OrNe AFRI Project summary
- OrNe AFRI Project narrative
Figures
- 2010 PAG poster
- 88Ab536-B haplotype + QTL
- Graphical haplotypes of OrNe parental germplasm
- OrNe MAS schemes
- Pedigrees of OrNe parental germplasm
FEATURES
PUBLICATIONS