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Perennial Barley Breeding Services

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Barley serves as a vital ingredient in brewing, animal feed, and a staple food for people in plateau regions. Widely cultivated globally, it ranks as the fourth most important cereal crop after maize, wheat, and rice. However, conventional annual barley cultivation requires frequent tillage and sowing, which exacerbating soil erosion, nutrient loss, and carbon emissions. Developing perennial barley involves utilizing wild perennial relatives through hybridization and modern breeding techniques to introduce perennial traits into cultivated barley, enabling sustainable production.

Lifeasible specializes in plant breeding and is dedicated to advancing sustainable agricultural practices. Perennial barley breeding is one of our core service areas. We aim to overcome the limitations of traditional annual crops through innovative technologies and provide modern agriculture with more efficient, eco-friendly solutions.

Advantages of Perennial Barley Breeding

  • Ecological benefits. Perennial barley significantly reduces soil erosion, enhances water retention, and improves carbon sequestration capacity, thereby proving particularly valuable for slopes and ecologically fragile areas.
  • Economic benefits. It lowers the costs of seed, labor, and machinery, thereby reducing overall production expenses for farmers while stabilizing yields.
  • Climate resilience. Its deep root system enhances resistance to drought and extreme weather, helping address challenges posed by climate change.

Our Service for Perennial Barley Breeding

Utilizing wild perennial species resources

We conduct phenotypic and molecular evaluations of wild species to screen for cold-tolerant, highly regenerative materials with relatively superior seed quality. These selected materials serve as breeding parents or sources for our gene bank.

Interspecific hybridization and gene introgression

We introduce perennial traits or functionally relevant genes from wild species into cultivated barley through interspecific crosses. This process is combined with backcrossing and phenotypic selection to ensure preservation of desirable grain yield and quality.

Molecular breeding techniques

We utilize whole-genome sequencing, transcriptome analysis, GWAS, and candidate gene identification to locate genetic loci associated with perennialism, regrowth capacity, and underground storage organ formation. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) or genome-wide selection (GS) breeding schemes are implemented at key loci to accelerate improvement.

Additionally, we establish phenotype-genotype training populations and employ genomic selection models for early selection, which accelerates trait improvement and accumulating gains across generations. For variants that are difficult to rapidly fix through conventional hybridization, we offer a range of technologies, including tissue culture, embryo culture, somatic cell cloning, chromosome doubling, and haploid breeding, to efficiently obtain homozygous lines and stabilize target traits rapidly.

Process of our service.Fig.2 Our service process. (Lifeasible)

Highlights of Our Perennial Barley Breeding

  • Customized breeding programs. We design targeted breeding strategies tailored to client project characteristics and requirements, whether for cold-tolerant or drought-resistant perennial barley.
  • Advanced platform. By integrating GS, MAS, and gene editing or functional validation when necessary, we significantly shorten R&D cycles and enhance early selection accuracy.
  • Data-driven decision-making. Our big data platform predicts variety performance to mitigate breeding risks.
  • External collaboration. We maintain partnerships with universities, research institutions, and international long-term breeding programs, granting access to cutting-edge research findings and genomic resources.

Perennial barley breeding integrates production efficiency with ecological conservation. By integrating frontier technologies, Lifeasible is dedicated to developing high-yielding, stress-tolerant, and sustainable perennial barley varieties, driving green innovation in agriculture. If you are interested, please feel free to contact us.

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