USDA Researchers Plan - Barley Hybrids May Be Coming A pain to make barley the third cereal crop after rows would cross-pollmate is com and grain sorghum grown from hybrid seed has unknown It is expected that been proposed by a USDA scientist air currents would be sufh- It could mean a 25-percent would be pollinated by plants cient to carry pol’en from increase in barley plant effi in the unspiayed, first-gene- fertile to sterile plants ciency—about the same gain that hybrid vigor gave corn and sorghum Key to success is the barley plant—not yet discovered m which two genetic traits ate closely linked on one chiomosome in the nuc'eus of each reproductive cell These special traits male steuhty and resistance to D DT insecticide occur ha lui ally in some barley van tie* A plant with the close link- age of these tiaits is being sought in USDA’s wond col lection of baileys, and breed mg research to get this link age is also undei way Since 30th tiaitb occur frequently m iidluie, chances of finding the plant aie icasonabh good, accoidmg to the origin ator of the plan, agionomisi A Wiete He is head oi AKd bnijoy at US DA s Agncultural Reseaich Ce’itei, Bcltsiille, Md An additional tequuemeni foi of the plan is the development oi mechanized in eduction piocediues They am neces.aiy because of the iaige amount oi baile\ seed needed to plant each ~aeic About 25 million bushels . twice that needed ioi corn) die lequned annually loi on’.'y plantings in the U G Ay-unnng that a plant is rou>'d with good linkage of male steuhty and DDT re sislance anothci piehminan 'Up is icquued—choosing 2 \ u teties with outstanding ag lononnc chaxactci lotics that will combine well in the hy bud One \auety would oCi ve as the female oi seed parent of the hybrids the other, the male paient Four Steps are Involved Wiebe outlines his propos ed tom-step bi ceding method this wa> i Translxi traits by back et osiing into tlie barley chos en as female paient of the nybnds The lesullmg prog would t'len be crossed back to the chosen vanety a numbei of limes 3 Seed fiom the first and -econd generation or the last jaokcio_s would bo sown in j.lc'nale lows Seedlings in ’lie second-genciation rows mlv won d be spiayed with DDT This would kill all the ulatils except icsistant to the -‘hemic U Suivivmg plants | DEAD ANIMALS | | REMOVED PROMPTLY g I Will Pay Full Value g H For Dead Animals || g Dealers in Bones, g l! 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EX 2-4983 ration rows Only seeds from n,lale sterility was discov the sprayed rows would be ored m some barley varieties harvested m by C A Suneson, 3 Seed obtained in step 2 ARS plant breeder stationed wou’d be sown in rows, at the California Agncultur- Seedlmgs in alternate rows a l Experiment Station, Davis would then be sprayed with Such barleys produce no DDT, leaving a pure stand of pollen, but the fema’e part resistant, male sterile plants of each plant is normal and These plants would be pollm- will set seed when fertilized atcd by plants in the un- Barley normally has male & sprayed rows Seed again female parts in each flower would be haivested only and is seH-pohinating fiom piants in the sprayed In 1959, Butrsh researchei iow" J D Hayes at* the Plant 4 Hybrid seed wou'd bo Bieedmg Station in Wales itm£ftkmßodg4 24x42’ MACHINERY SHED.., TOS 36*70’ LIVESTOCK SHED .... WO 66a98’ LOariKG SHED . S 3S'SB SIIHON'S Modem combination slee! and wood fana buildings. 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