The present invention relates to barley plant or a part thereof, wherein the kernels of said barley plant have a reduced (1,3;1,4)-β-glucan content. The barley plant may carry a mutation in the CslF6 gene, wherein said mutated CslF6 gene encodes a mutant CslF6 polypeptide.

The present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage suitable for consumption by a subject with a non-coeliac gastrointestinal sensitivity. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage from barley grain comprising reduced levels of one or more alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitors. Also provided is barley grain that can be used in the methods of the invention.

The invention relates to the production of graft-mediated hybrid monocotyledonous plants. Methods for the production of such plants are disclosed herein.

An Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation method for sea barleygrass is provided. The method includes: S1, selecting immature embryo materials of sea barleygrass with immature embryos each having a length in a range of 0.5-1.0, sterilizing them with alcohol and sodium hypochlorite to obtain sterilized seeds; S2, separating the immature embryos, crosscutting the immature embryos, and inducing callus generation and proliferation; S3, adjusting pre-culture time and Agrobacterium infection time of calli based on the callus generation and Agrobacterium growth to thereby prevent excessive Agrobacterium liquid; and S4, performing adventitious bud induction culture and rooting induction culture under a shielding-formed low-light environment to obtain tissue culture plantlets. It relates to a tissue culture method for immature embryos of sea barleygrass with high green spot differentiation and plantlet formation rates, which is not limited by materials. A transformation and regeneration system has high genetic transformation and mutation efficiency.

The present invention provides barley plants, or parts thereof, having a high limit dextrinase activity. In particular, barley plants carrying a mutation in HvLDI gene are provided. Furthermore, plant products prepared from said barley plants, or parts thereof, are described as well as methods of producing the same.

The present invention provides methods of preparing plants, with specific predetermined mutation(s) in one or more NOI(s). The specific predetermined mutation(s) preferably may result in the identification of plants having desired traits.

A barley cultivar, designated BG 2020, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to seeds, plants, and derivatives of barley cultivar BG 2020, and methods for producing a barley plant by crossing BG 2020 with itself or another barley variety. The disclosure also relates to barley varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from barley BG 2020, to methods for producing other barley varieties, lines, or plant parts derived from barley BG 2020, and to the barley plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The disclosure further relates to hybrid barley seeds and plants produced by crossing barley cultivar BG 2020 with another barley cultivar. The disclosure relates to methods for developing other barley varieties or breeding lines derived from variety BG 2020, including cell and tissue cultures and haploid systems.

A barley plant including a mutant LOX-1 protein and that is deficient in lipoxygenase activity.

Disclosed herein includes a safening composition comprising an herbicidally effective amount of (a) at least one phenoxy herbicide, or an agriculturally acceptable salts, esters, and amides thereof; (b) at least one safener from quinolinyloxyacetate family of chemicals, or agriculturally acceptable salts, esters and amides thereof, wherein the weight ratio of the at least one phenoxy herbicide to cloquintocet is from about 500:1 to about 1:1. Herbicidal injury caused by a phenoxy herbicide in wheat and barley is reduced with the use of low rates of cloquintocet.

The invention relates to barley plants having a high α-amylase activity. The barley plants of the invention may for example carry a mutation in one or more α-amylase promoters, in the HRT gene, in the HBL12 gene and/or in the WRKY38 gene. The invention further provides plant products prepared from said barley plants.