Japanese barleys offer frost-tolerance hope

摘要

Management strategies are currently the only option Australian growers have to reduce the risk and impact of frosts, which cost an estimated 100 million dollar in lost cereal yields each year. However research at the University of Adelaide, funded bythe Grains and Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), has identified genes in two varieties of Japanese barley, which could be used in plant breeding programs to increase genetic frost-tolerance in grain varieties.