Barley Resources

Mutants and Germplasm Resources

The European Barley database
http://barley.ipk-gatersleben.de/genres/
This database, maintained at IPK Gatersleben was the result of an extensive project to integrate information on European barley germplasm resources.

The Barley Core collection
http://earth.lab.nig.ac.jp/~dclust/cgi-bin/BCC/
The International Barley Core Collection (BCC) is a selected and limited set of accessions. It optimally represents the genetic diversity of cultivated barley and the wild species of Hordeum. This collection and support information is maintained at a number of sites including this one in Japan

The UK National Cereal Germplasm Collection
http://www.jic.ac.uk/GERMPLAS/bbsrc_ce/index.htm
The UK national barley collection is maintained at the John Innes Centre as a part of this collection.

The Classic Barley Mutant Database
http://www.nordgen.org/ngb/
This collection of barley mutants, many with detailed pictures, contains about 10000 accessions resulting from a joint Scandinavian mutation research programme.

The SCRI Mutant Database
http://germinate.scri.sari.ac.uk/barley/mutants/
This database supports an ongoing project at SCRI to record phenotype and image information from a large barley mutant population developed at SCRI in the cultivar Optic.

Barley Sequence and Genomics Resouces

The Harvest Database
http://harvest.ucr.edu/
The Harvest database is maintained by Dr Tim Close at the University of California, Riverside. It is available as a downloadable database to run on local PCs. It contains virtually all of the Barley ESTs in the public domain together with a number of assemblies including those used in the design of the Affymetrix Barley1 GeneChip.

The Barley Morex BAC library
http://www.agronomy.ucdavis.edu/Dubcovsky/BAC-library/ITMIbac/Andris.html
The Morex barley BAC library was develop by Dr Rod Wing as a collaboration with a number of barley groups around the world. Filter sets of this library are held at a number of laboratories around the world, including SCRI.

Barley Mapping Resources

Barley Resources at GrainGenes
http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG2/germplasm.shtml#barley
The USDA GrainGenes database maintained by groups at Cornell and Albany, CA is the main repository in the US for map, QTL and genomics information on small grain cereals. It contains information on an extensive set of barley maps (largely US) and other molecular resources.

Barley Physical Mapping
http://phymap.ucdavis.edu:8080/barley/
A number of projects are now underway which will make a major contribution to the generation of a barley physical map. eg. Dr Tim Close of the University of California, Riverside leads a project which is making a major contribution to the generation of a barley physical map through the anchoring of barley gene sequences to clone sin the Morex BAC library.

Barley Functional Genomics Resources

The SCRI Barley TILLING Portal
http://germinate.scri.sari.ac.uk/barley/mutants/
Through the support of the BBSRC and SEERAD, SCRI currently runs a barley TILLING service based on a large population develop from the cultivar Optic.

VIGS in Barley
http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/abstract/138/4/2155
The utility of Viral Induced Gene Silencing has recently been demonstrated in barley by Dr Christophe Lacome’s group at SCRI

Barley Transformation
http://www.bract.org/
In the UK the Defra funded BRACT project provides transformation capability to UK researchers.

Other Valuable Barley Resources on the Web

Barleyworld
http://www.barleyworld.org/
This site is maintained by Dr Pat Hayes at the University of Oregon and contains links to an extensive variety of barley resources.

Washington State University
http://barleygenomics.wsu.edu/databases/databases.html
Dr Andy Kleinhofs at Washington State University maintains a number of value online barley resources.