Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

The barley Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) is a community effort of 30 scientists from 19 institutions with expertise ranging from genetics/genomics, breeding, pathology, databases, computer science, food science, malt quality, and statistics.  The University of Minnesota is the lead institution for this project.

The substantial resources of barley genomics/genetics have not been integrated to improve the efficiency of barley breeding and provide geneticists and breeders with seamless access to genes controlling economically and biologically important traits.   The overall theme of the barley CAP is to integrate and utilize state-of-the-art genomic tools and approaches in plant breeding programs, thereby facilitating the development of superior barley cultivars and access to agronomic and economically important genes.

Educational and outreach activities are integrated throughout the project.  Our primary education goal is to educate the next generation of plant breeders through integrating students in all aspects of the project.  For outreach, we will develop a comprehensive program to extend our efforts to plant breeders and geneticists through national and international meetings, short courses, a web-based database and software applications.  For growers and end users, we will develop a comprehensive program to extend our information through a web site, meetings, and workshops.

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Special Workshop - August 19-21, 2009   Barley CAP Association Genetics, Marker-Assisted Selection Workshop, Cargill Building, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. Registration form