REPORTS FROM COORDINATORS

Coordinator's Report: The genetic male sterile barley collection.

M.C. Therrien

Agriculture and Agrifood Canada Brandon Research Centre Box 1000A, RR # 3, Brandon Manitoba, Canada Email: Mtherrien@em.agr.ca

There were no requests for samples of the MS stock collection in 1996. The collection is being maintained in cold storage at -40 C, as F1s backgrounded to the cultivar Bedford, a locally-adapted six-row feed barley. The database on this collection is available for the asking. The requestor will either need to send an IBM/MS-DOS formatted 1.44M 3.5" diskette to the above address, or the file can be emailed if the requestor has Groupwise or MIME capabilities. Be aware that the file is large (14Mb) and is Microsoft Excel or Dbase IV compatible. Any requests for seed should be sent to the coordinator. Please note that we can only furnish small (5g) samples.