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Annual Progress Report on Malting Barley Research March, 2007

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2. United States Wheat and <strong>Barley</strong> Scab Initiative Cultural, Chemical and Biological C<strong>on</strong>trol<br />

<strong>Research</strong> Area Committee, 2005-present. (Vice-Chair of Committee).<br />

3. United States Wheat and <strong>Barley</strong> Scab Initiative Steering Committee, 2003-present. (<strong>Barley</strong><br />

representative).<br />

4. Internati<strong>on</strong>al Society of Plant Pathology, Rhizoct<strong>on</strong>ia working group, 1998-present.<br />

(Committee Chairman).<br />

Farmer/Industry Talks<br />

1. ND State <strong>Barley</strong> Show, Osnabrock ND, <strong>March</strong> 23 th 2006.<br />

Pers<strong>on</strong>nel:<br />

Stephen Neate, Associate Professor / Project Leader – State Funded<br />

Open Positi<strong>on</strong>, <strong>Research</strong> Specialist I – State Funded<br />

Pat Gross, <strong>Research</strong> Specialist I – 100% AMBA Funded<br />

Sanjaya Gyawali, PhD Student – 100% <strong>Barley</strong> CAP Funded<br />

Scott Halley, Extensi<strong>on</strong> Pathologist, Langd<strong>on</strong> and PhD Student – State Funded<br />

Undergraduate Student – 10% USWBSI funded<br />

Statement of C<strong>on</strong>text: The <strong>Barley</strong> Pathology project does not have a funded field technician<br />

and the North Dakota State funded laboratory/greenhouse technician resigned in February to<br />

take up a higher paid positi<strong>on</strong> in industry. At present the state funded laboratory technician<br />

positi<strong>on</strong> is frozen, but we hope to be allowed to hire at the end of summer. For the last 4 years,<br />

funds from AMBA have allowed the employment of a field technician with 30 years experience<br />

in small plot experimental work. The AMBA funded field technician positi<strong>on</strong> is indispensable to<br />

the operati<strong>on</strong> of the <strong>Barley</strong> Pathology program and without both a field and<br />

laboratory/greenhouse technician, much of the support to the 6-rowed breeding program and<br />

most of the practical and industry relevant research will not take place.<br />

Graduate student Se<strong>on</strong>ghee Lee finished in June 2006 and Sanjaya Gyawali started in January<br />

2006. The most valuable work to the barley industry has come from my graduate students.<br />

Their work has resulted in a series of molecular markers that can be used in marker assisted<br />

selecti<strong>on</strong> for c<strong>on</strong>trol of septoria speckled leaf blotch the most important barley disease in the<br />

Midwest. In additi<strong>on</strong> the new stem rust race recently found in Africa was a wake-up-call to the<br />

industry and work by my students has kept my group current in mapping and identifying new<br />

rust resistance genes. Students working with existing staff are the cheapest and most flexible<br />

way to address new issues faced by the barley industry.<br />

Cooperators:<br />

Disease Survey<br />

Mr. Roger Ashley, Dickins<strong>on</strong> <strong>Research</strong> Extensi<strong>on</strong> Center, ND<br />

Ms. Janet Knodel, NDSU Fargo, ND<br />

Prof. Marcia McMullen, NDSU, Fargo, ND<br />

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