Enhanced Barley Through Genomics - supported by the Regional Barley Gene Mapping Project
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In 2009 the USBGP Celebrated 18 years of productivity and impact
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In 2009 the USBGP was reborn as the Enhanced Barley Through Genomics Project
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EBTG Project Description
Barley is facing a crisis. Acreage has declined to historically low levels and the US is in danger of conceding domestic and world markets for barley, and its value-added products, to competitors from Australia, Canada, and Europe. This will have a substantial negative impact on the US economy and federal, state, and local tax revenue. Acreage decline is due to several factors. In some traditional barley production areas, corn and soybean have become dominant crops due to favorable farm policy, biotechnology, and high levels of investment by the private sector. This has pushed barley acreage into more marginal areas, where drought and heat stress are major production restraints. Throughout the US, climate change is resulting in increased abiotic (e.g., drought, cold) and biotic (e.g., disease, insect) stresses on all crops. Barley is among the most stress tolerant crops, and judicious investment in biotechnology will allow scientists to enhance this innate tolerance in order to maximize productivity, quality, and economic returns. The barley research community needs a new special grant in order to apply the knowledge gained, and tools developed by, the US Barley Genome Project .
FY 10 EBTG Proposal
FY 11 EBTG Prospectus
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