Section I. Agricultural challenges and approaches to barley improvement
1 The world importance of barley and challenges to further improvements
Harold Verstegen, Otto Köneke, Viktor Korzun and Reinhard von Broock
2 Genetic diversity and germplasm management - wild barley, landraces, breeding materials
Kazuhiro Sato, Andrew Flavell, Joanne Russell, Andreas Börner and Jan Valkoun
3 Domestication
Takao Komatsuda
4 Shoot and inflorescence architecture
Laura Rossini, Ron Okagaki, Arnis Druka and Gary J. Muehlbauer
5 Genetic control of reproductive development
Benedikt Drosse, Chiara Campoli, Aman Mulki and Maria von Korff
6 Improvement of mineral nutrition: a source and sink for candidate genes
Benjamin Gruber and Nicolaus von Wirén
7 Photosynthesis and Leaf Senescence as Determinants of Plant Productivity
Per L. Gregersen, Christine H. Foyer and Karin Krupinska
8 Grain development
Winfriede Weschke and Hans Weber
9 Drought stress tolerance mechanisms in barley and its relevance to cereals
Polavarpu B Kavi Kishor, Kalladan Rajesh, Palakolanu S Reddy, Christiane Seiler and Nese Sreenivasulu
10 Response to viral pathogens
Frank Ordon, Thomas Kühne
11 Host- and nonhost response to attack by fungal pathogens
Patrick Schweizer
12 Response to phytophagous arthropods
Isabel Diaz, Inés Cambra, M. Estrella Santamaría, Pablo González-Melendi, Manuel Martínez
13 Molecular Farming
Einar Mäntylä and Björn L. Örvar
Section II. Recent progress in methodology
14 Development of sequence resources
Nils Stein
15 Induced genetic variation, TILLING and NGS-based cloning
Silvio Salvi, Arnis Druka, Sara Giulia Milner, Damian Gruszka
16 Modulation of meiotic recombination
Luke Ramsay, Isabelle Colas, Robbie Waugh
17 The secondary genepool of barley - Hordeum bulbosum: Gene Introgression and Homoeologous Recombination
Brigitte Ruge-Wehling, Peter Wehling
18 Genome wide association scans (GWAS)
Robbie Waugh, Bill Thomas, Andrew Flavell, Luke Ramsay, Jordi Comadran and Joanne Russell
19 Genomic selection in barley breeding
Karl Schmid and Patrick Thorwarth
20 Haploid technology
Jochen Kumlehn
21 Genetic engineering
Jochen Kumlehn, Maia Gurushidze and Götz Hensel
22 Whole plant phenomics
Mark Crowe, Timothy J. March, Joanne Tilbrook
