- Dawson, Ian K.
- Russell, Joanne
- Powell, Wayne
- Steffenson, Brian
- Thomas, William T. B.
- Waugh, Robbie
Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) is an excellent model for understanding agricultural responses to climate change. Its initial domestication over 10millennia ago and subsequent wide migration provide striking evidence of adaptation to different environments, agro-ecologies and uses. A bottleneck in the selection of modern varieties has resulted in a reduction in total genetic diversity and a loss of specific alleles relevant to climate-smart agriculture. However, extensive and well-curated collections of landraces, wild barley accessions (H.vulgare ssp. spontaneum) and other Hordeum species exist and are important new allele sources. A wide range of genomic and analytical tools have entered the public domain for exploring and capturing this variation, and specialized populations, mutant stocks and transgenics facilitate the connection between genetic diversity and heritable phenotypes. These lay the biological, technological and informational foundations for developing climate-resilient crops tailored to specific environments that are supported by extensive environmental and geographical databases, new methods for climate modelling and trait/environment association analyses, and decentralized participatory improvement methods. Case studies of important climate-related traits and their constituent genes - including examples that are indicative of the complexities involved in designing appropriate responses - are presented, and key developments for the future highlighted.
- abiotic and biotic stresses
- barley genome assembly
- evolutionary participatory plant breeding
- landraces
- niche modelling
- wild barley
- SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS
- POWDERY MILDEW RESISTANCE
- VULGARE SUBSP SPONTANEUM
- HORDEUM SPECIES POACEAE
- QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI
- WILD BARLEY
- CULTIVATED BARLEY
- GENETIC DIVERSITY
- GROWTH HABIT
- LEAF RUST
[Dawson, Ian K.; Russell, Joanne; Thomas, William T. B.; Waugh, Robbie] James Hutton Inst, Cell & Mol Sci, Invergowrie Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland; [Powell, Wayne] CGIAR Consortium Off, Montpellier 5, France; [Steffenson, Brian] Univ Minnesota, Dept Plant Pathol, St Paul, MN 55108 USA; [Waugh, Robbie] Univ Dundee, JHI, Coll Life Sci, Div Plant Sci, Invergowrie Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland
Dawson, IK (reprint author), James Hutton Inst, Cell & Mol Sci, Invergowrie Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland.