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Why Breed Early Maturing Barley?

Barley (Hordeum vulgare) used to be a stable food of ancient civilizations, today it ranks the fourth largest harvested cereal in the world and is used mainly for animal feed and malting. Barley is more adaptable to harsh environmental conditions than its close relative wheat, and maintains an important role in human nutrition in harsh climatic regions. Early maturity barley is conducive to changing one crop per year to two crops per years even three crops per year, which is benefit for the total annual yield. The production of barley with early maturity may also prevent late fertility of high temperature forced ripening, dry hot wind, or early frost damage, as well as the maturity of rain-induced spike germination and certain late pests and diseases, to assure the crop yield and quality. Molecular breeding for early maturing barley can speed up the breeding process. The selection of barley varieties with early maturity is benefits on barley yield.

Breeding Services for Early Maturing Barley

Traditional breeding shows disadvantages such as uncontrollable, long cycle and more interference. The time of plant maturing can be designed by editing maturing related genes via genetic engineering techniques. Lifeasible successfully established a platform for Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of barley and provides other powerful molecular technology platforms that help customers get early maturing barley.

  • Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS): Identification of maturing genes in barley and combining with gene editing technology for breeding.
  • Sequencing-Based Breeding: Using high-throughput sequencing technology find the functions of genes with certain different functions and master genetic laws.
  • Molecular Biology Research
  • Gene editing: Modification of maturing related genes by gene editing technology.

Transgenic Work Flow

  • Construction of transformation vector
  • Prepare explants
  • Genetic transformation of barley
  • Identification of resistant plant
  • Access to transgenic barley
  • Delivery of reports and plant materials

Different stages of the barley transformation processFigure 1. Different stages of the barley transformation process. (a) Arrangement of Immature for inoculation (b) formation of embryogenic callus (c) the initiation of green spots on callus (d) regeneration of transgenic plantlets on regeneration medium (e) plantlet rooting in glass culture tubes (g) transgenic barley growing to maturity in the glasshouse. (Waheed, U; et al. 2016)

Advantages of Our Early Maturing Barley Breeding Service

  • Technical service team with years of experimental experience to transform plant genes from different sources.
  • The professional technical team can customize a suitable genetic transformation plan for you to obtain positive transformed seeds that can meet the downstream experiments.
  • Effective and stable plant growing system to ensure high positive seed yield.
  • One-stop service to accelerate the research process.

As an expert in botany and agronomy, Lifeasible is committed to accelerating plant breeding researches through molecular biology technology platforms. If you have a related research need or would like more information about our services, please feel free to contact us.

Reference

  1. Waheed, U; et al.; Comparison of Agrobacterium mediated wheat and barley transformation with nucleoside diphosphate kinase 2 (NDPK2) gene. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 2016, 48: 2467-2475.

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