The Steptoe x Morex doubled haploid barley mapping population

A population of 150 barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) doubled haploid (DH) lines was developed by the Oregon State University Barley Breeding Program for the North American Barley Genome Mapping Project (NABGMP). The parentage of the population is "Steptoe"/ "Morex". Steptoe is a high yielding, broadly adapted six-row Coast-type feed barley selected from the cross of "WA3564/"Unitan" (Muir and Nilan, 1973). "Morex", a midwestern six-row Manchurian-type, is the North American six-row malting quality standard. It was developed at the University of Minnesota from the cross of "Cree/"Bonanza" (Rasmusson and Wilcoxson, 1979). Seed from a single head of each parent, supplied by Dr. D. Hoffman, USDA/ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho, was used to generate the F1. A population of 310 DH lines was developed from the F1 by the Hordeum bulbosum technique, as described by Chen and Hayes (1989), and the final set of 150 lines was selected at random from this array.

Chen, F., and P.M. Hayes. 1989. A comparison of Hordeum bulbosum-mediated haploid production efficiency in barley using in vitro floret and tiller culture. Theor. Appl. Genet. 77:701-704.

Muir, C.E., and R.A. Nilan. 1973. Registration of Steptoe barley. Crop Sci 13:770.

Rasmusson, D.C., and R.D. Wilcoxson. 1979. Registration of Morex barley. Crop Sci 19:293.

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