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"Applying the Tools of
Contemporary Genetics to Barley Improvement"
Project Description
The
USBGP is a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary project that applies
the latest genetic technology to
barley improvement. The long-term goal of the USBGP is to locate and
characterize genes of economic importance and to use these genes in
applied plant breeding. In the broadest sense, the USBGP is an
international consortium of barley researchers. Strictly speaking, the
U.S. component of USBGP is funded by the USDA/CSREES. The benefits
of the USBGP to the U.S. will be a profitable and competitive barley
industry. More broadly, the USBGP will generate genetic information
that can be
used
by all researchers for the improvement of barley and other cereal crops.
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