I. Information about the Barley Newsletter

II. Minutes

A. Barley Crop Germplasm Committee Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, October 29, 1995

B.National Barley Improvement Committee Meeting, Arlington Virginia and Washington D.C., March 10-13, 1996

III. Reports from Individual Contributors

A. NORTH AMERICA

UNITED STATES

National Small Grains Collection

National Small Grain Collection Activities - H.E. Bockelman

National Small Grains Collection Barley Germplasm Evaluations - D.M. Wesenberg and H.E. Bockelman

California

Californial Report - L.F. Jackson and L.W. Gallagher

Colorado

Barley Stripe Rust Germplasm Screening Update and Intergrated Management - W.M. Brown, Jr., J.P. Hill and V.R. Velasco

Georgia

Georgia Report - J. Johnson, D. Buntin, and D. Bland

Minnesota

Management and Control of Fusarium Head Blight of Barley - R. Dill-Macky and C.K. Evans.

Barley Rusts in the United States in 1995 - D.L. Long, B.J. Steffenson, K.J. Leonard, Y. Jin, M.E. Hughes, and D.H. Casper

Scab (Fusarium), Kernel Discoloration, Semidwarf Barley and Morex QTLs - D.C. Rasmusson, K. Hellewell, J. McElroy, M. Peel, E. Schiefelbein, and K.J. Young

North Dakota

Waxy Hull-less Barley for Use as a Food Ingredient - P.T. Berglunk C.E. Fastnaught, and A.L. Dudgeon

Identification of RAPD Markers Linked to a Scald Resistance Gene in Barley - I.G. Borovkova and B.J. Steffenson

North Dakota Report - R.D. Horsley and J.D. Franckwiak

Effects of -(13),(14)-D-Glucans from Hull-less Barley on the Properties of Wheat Starch, flour and bread - Y.T. Lee, P.B. Schwarz, and B.L. D'Appolonia

Genetics and Mapping of Powdery Mildew Resistance in the Harrington/TR306 and Harrington/Morex Doubled Haploid Populations - B.J. Steffenson and A. Kleinhofs

Oklahoma

Germplasm Enhancement for RWA Resistance - D.W. Mornhinweg, D.R. Porter, and J.A. Webster

Utah

Utah Report - R.S. Albrechtsen

Virginia

Winter Barley Production and Research in 1995 - C. Griffey and D. Brann

Nitrogen Management of Winter Feed Barley - T.H. Pridgen, M.M. Alley, C.A. Griffey, and D.E. Brann

Washington

Barley Production and Improvement in Washington State - S.E. Ullrich

CANADA

Alberta

Tillage and Barley Foliar Diseases - 1995 - T.K. Turkington, P.A. Burnett, J.H. Helm, M.A. Anderson, and D.D. Orr

Report of the Barley Development Group, Lacombe - R.I. Wolfe, J.H. Helm, P.A. Burnett, P.E. Jedel, D.F. Salmon, T.K. Turkington, and K. Xi

A Simplified Method for Staining Paraffin-embedded Sections of Scald of Barley Caused by Rhynchosporium secalis - K. Xi and P.A. Burnett

Manitoba

Six-row Barley Development in Manitoba - M.C. Therrien

Ontario

Barley Improvement at the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre - T.M. Choo, K.M. Ho, R.A. Martin, P.Y. Jui, and J.Fregeau-Reid

Bulbosum Method in Eastern Canada: An observation - T.M. Choo, L. Shugar, and D.J.M. Bastien

Saskatchewan

CDC-Dawn 2-row Hulless Barley - B.G. Rossnagel, R.S. Bhatty, and B.H. Harvey

MEXICO

Area Under Disease Progress Curve and Latent Period Differences for Yellow Rust Among Barley Cultivars - S. Sandoval, L.H. Broers, and H.E. Vivar

B. EUROPE AND ASIA

FINLAND

Progress in Identifying Sources of Resistance to Net Blotch and Scald - J. Robinson, M. Jalli, and H. Lindqvist

RUSSIA

Possible Method of Breeding High-Productive Awnless Barley Cultivars - D.S. Omarov

Results of Barley Breeding for Productivity and Adaptation - V. Shevstov, U. Gruntsev, T. Tihomirova, and N. Serkin

SYRIA AND PAKISTAN

Constraints to Barley Production in Northern Mountains of Pakistan - N.S. Kisana, M. Tahir, M.Y. Mujahid, N.I. Hashmi, and A. Majid

IV. Corrections to Last Year's Newsletter