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BARLEY GENETICS NEWSLETTER, Vol. 24

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER AND TITLE PAGE, p. 0

INFORMATION ABOUT THE BARLEY GENETICS NEWSLETTER, pp. 1-2

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS, p. 3

RESEARCH NOTES

Molecular biological and enzymatic studies confirm that xantha -f, -g and-h mutants of barley are defective in magnesium chelatase. Robert D. Willows, Ute C. Vothknecht, Bent L. Petersen and Paul E. Jensen, pp. 4-6

Conversion of an RFLP marker associated with malting quality to a PCR-based marker. F. Han, J.A. Clancy and S.E. Ullrich, pp. 7-9

In search of the elusive Runx gene for loose smut resistance in barley. Mario C. Therrien, P. L. Thomas, and C. A. Sonntag, pp. 10-11

Molecular cloning of the barley pathogen induced gene coding for "Thaumatin like" protein. Giampiero Valè, Emauela Torrigiani, Hula Toubia-Rahme and Giovanni Delogu, pp. 12-13

Subsets from mapping populations for localization of new genes in barley. M. A. Mgonja, L. S. Dahleen, and J. D. Franckowiak, pp. 14-23

Genomic organization and sequence diversity of the long terminal repeat (LTR) of the BARE-1 retrotransposon-family in barley. Dagmar Schmidt and Andreas Graner, pp. 24-27

Progress towards the construction of a Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Library in Barley. Wayne Kennard and Nora Lapitan, pp. 28-31

Inheritance and geographical distribution of a phenol reaction-less mutant of barley. K. Takeda and C.L. Zhang, pp. 32-34

Linkage analysis of several isozyme loci in barley. Ryota Yoshima and Takeo Konishi, pp. 35-37

Inheritance of a fluorescent reaction mutant of barley. K. Takeda and C.L. Zhang, pp. 38-40

Quantitative trait loci in a North West European spring barley cross- Blenheim x E224/3. W.T.B. Thomas, W. Powell, R. Waugh, B.P. Forster, K.J. Chalmers, U.M. Barua, J.S. Swanston, and R. P. Ellis, pp. 41-45

Molecular analysis of cold hardening in barley. Luigi Cattivelli, Christina Crosatti, Maria Grossi, Fulvia Rizza and A. Michele Stanca, pp. 46-48

Artificial induction and characterization of amylose-free mutants of barley. Naoyuki Ishikawa, Jiro Ishihara and Masamitsu Itoh, pp. 49-53

Thionin STS marker for barley genotype identification. Primetta Faccioli, Nicola Pecchioni and Valeria Terzi, pp. 54-55

The brachytic class of semidwarf mutants in barley. J.D. Franckowiak, pp. 56-59

Doubled haploids for winter barley breeding in Scotland. P. Lawrence and R.P. Ellis, pp. 60-62

Notes on linkage drag in Bowman backcross derived lines of spring barley. J.D. Franckowiak, pp. 63-70

Presence of barley powdery mildew resistance gene Mla8 in some `Pallas' near-isogenic barley lines. Hans Peter Jensen, pp. 71-74

Grain and spike morphology in three pleiotropic barley mutants and their homozygous double combinations. A. R. Prina and M. del C. Arias, pp. 75-79

ß-amylase polymorphism in barley is detected by PCR with an arbitrary primer. V. P. Netsvetaev', R. N. Kalendar', and Yu. M. Sivolap, pp. 80-83

Associations of barley grain quality characters with the Wsp3 and amo1 loci. J.S. Swanston and B.P. Forster, pp. 84-86

New Dominant Dwarfing Gene (Dwf2) in Barley. D.E. Falk, pp. 87-89

Somatic changes occurred synchronously at several loci in barley (hordeum vulgare L.). H. Schreiber and A. Habekuß, pp. 90-91

Analysis of recombination in male and female gametophytes of barley. (H. vulgare). Volker Mohler and Andreas Graner, pp. 92-93

Segmental interchanges in barley. IV. Translocations involving Chromosomes 4 and 6. G. Hagberg, P. Hagberg, and L. Lehmann, pp. 94-101

New resistance genes to the brown leaf rust, Puccinia Hordei in wild barley from Israel. J. Manisterski and Y. Anikster, pp. 102-103

Translocation derived duplications involving short arm segments of barley chromosome 5 as defined genetically by physical RFLP mapping. G. Künzel, A. Sorokin and F. Marthe, pp. 104-107

Integration of 37 translocation breakpoints of barley chromosome 5 into the Igri/Franka derived RFLP map. A. Sorokin, F. Marthe, and G. Künzel, pp. 108-112

Genetic stocks available through the North American Barley Genome Mapping Project. P.M. Hayes, pp. 113-116

Techniques for the identification of yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) in a YAC-library with RFLP-markers closely linked to genes of interest. W. Michalek, G. Wenzel and A. Jahoor, pp. 117-121

A mutant having six-rowed gene allelic to v locus. Tokuhiko Makino, Masahiko Furusho and Tadahiko Fukuoka, p. 122

Identification of a RAPD-marker linked to the BaMMV/BaYMV resistance gene ym4. F. Ordon, E. Bauer, K.J. Dehmer, A. Graner and W. Friedt, pp. 123-126

Overall coordinator's report. Udda Lundqvist, p. 127

List of barley coordinators, pp. 128-129

Coordinators' reports:

Chromosome 1. David Laurie, pp. 130-131
Chromosome 2. J.D. Franckowiak, pp. 132-138
Chromosome 4. B.P. Forster, pp. 139-141
Chromosome 5. Jens Jensen, pp. 142-144
Chromosome 6. D.E. Falk, p. 145
Chromosome 7. George Fedak, pp. 146-147
Barley Genetic Stock Collection. An Hang and Darrell M. Wesenberg, pp. 148-152
Trisomic and aneuploid stocks. A. Hang, p. 153
Translocations and balanced tertiary trisomics. G. Künzel, pp. 153-155
Autotetraploids. Wolfgang Friedt, p. 156
Disease and pest resistance genes. J. Helms Jorgensen, pp. 156-158
Eceriferum genes. Udda Lundqvist, pp. 159-160
Nuclear genes affecting the chloroplast. Diter von Wettstein, p. 160
The genetic sterile barley collection. M. C. Therrien, p. 161
Inversions. B. O. Bengtsson, p. 161
Anthocyanin genes. B. Jende-Strid, pp. 162-165
Ear morphology genes. Udda Lundqvist, p. 165
Earliness genes. Udda Lundqvist, p. 166
Chromosome duplications. Arne Hagberg, p. 166
Wheat-barley genetic stocks. A.K.M.R. Islam, p. 167
Semidwarf genes. J. D. Franckowiak, p. 168
Barley Genetic Stocks, pp. 169-170

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