Bob McIntosh was made an Officer of the Order of Australia on June 8, 2009, for "service to agricultural science in Australia and internationally, particularly through research in the areas of wheat genetics and rust disease and as an educator and mentor".
The barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) is a community effort of 30 scientists from 19 US institutions, to integrate and utilize state-of-the-art genomic tools and approaches in barley breeding programs.
ETGI coordinates European efforts in barley and wheat physical mapping, sequencing, high resolution genetic mapping, and development of populations for trait mapping with QTLs and association genetics.
