Abstract
Barley is an important crop and accumulates agriculturally important genetic information. Barley is a self-pollinating diploid species and well studied genetically. The barley resource center in Okayama University preserves ca. 10,000 barley lines and distributes ca. 6,000 of them with database information. Due to the large genome size of ca. 5000Mbp, the genome analysis is conducted mainly by ESTs in barley which reached ca. 420,000 on the public databases in November 2005. Based on these ESTs, GeneChip system was released. Ca. 120,000 cDNA clones were preserved and full length cDNAs were generated in Okayama University. An original BAC library and its high density membrane filters and pooled DNAs are available from the project. To capture barley diversity efficiently, barley germplasm must be controlled and handled by using above genome resources.
