Breeding Multi-Use Barley for Organic Systems Webinar December 18

The eOrganic community is hosting a webinar tomorrow about breeding (or hull-less) barley by Brigid Meints of Oregon State University. The webinar will take place on December 18th at 11AM Pacific Time (12PM Mountain, 1PM Central, 2PM Eastern Time). It's free and open to the public, and advance registration is required. 

Register now at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2nzGTTGBRM6v26bNUx-nKw

About the Webinar

Barley is a versatile crop with three principal end-uses: feed, food, and malt. Organic barley is produced for all three uses and fetches a significant premium over conventional barley. Most of the barley grown in the United States has an adhering hull, but a small percentage of the barley grown is hull-less, or ‘naked’. Naked barley shows potential as a crop that can be used for food, feed, and malt. The project that this webinar focuses on is directed at discovering paths to create accepted multi-uses for organically-grown barley varieties. The goal will be most readily accomplished by plant breeders developing and releasing naked multi-use varieties with modest β-glucan levels suitable for organic production. Organic producers, processers, and consumers with strong interests in innovation, health, and sustainability stand to benefit directly from the adoption of new multi-use barley varieties. This webinar will cover research on naked barley applications for multiple end-uses and the breeding work being done to develop multi-use naked barley for organic systems.

About the Presenter

Brigid Meints is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Barley Breeding program at Oregon State University focusing on breeding multi-use naked barley for organic systems. She earned her MS from OSU in Crop Science with a focus in Plant Breeding & Genetics and her PhD in Crop Science at Washington State University.

The webinar will be recorded and archived on the eOrganic YouTube channel, and will be conducted using Zoom.