Reino Aikasalo

• Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd.

In research to date, projected climate change has been considered to be beneficial for agriculture under Nordic conditions, where crop production is mainly limited by low temperatures resulting in short growing seasons. However, with the rapid increases in global mean temperature implied at the high end of the uncertainty range of current projectio...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of D, C, and B hordein polypeptides on malting quality of 19 spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars. Results from the study indicated that B hordein polypeptide combinations had some effect on malting quality through regulating diastatic power. Comparison of the relative amounts of hordei...

Genetic engineering is becoming a useful tool in the improvement of plants and plant-based raw materials. Varieties with value-added traits are developed for nonfood use in industrial and medical production, and different production lines must be kept separate. For good management practices, knowledge of relevant gene flow parameters is required. I...

The processing quality of cereals can be modified by altering the structural grain constituents or the enzyme activities that mobilize storage reserves of the seeds. In order to complement the malt enzyme spectrum, a gene encoding for a thermotolerant fungal endo-(1,4)--glucanase was introduced into two barley cultivars, Kymppi and Golden Promise....

Forty one samples of the malting barley cultivar Scarlett were collected from both Scandinavia (15 from Finland and 10 from Denmark) and the Iberian Peninsula (15 from Spain and 1 from Portugal), during the harvest years of 1998 and 1999. These samples were subjected to grain analyses, comprising protein content, hordein fractions by high performan...

Genetic engineering is becoming a useful tool in the improvement of plants and plant‐based raw materials. Varieties with value‐added traits are developed for nonfood use in industrial and medical production, and different production lines must be kept separate. For good management practices, knowledge of relevant gene flow parameters is required. I...

Molecular breeding is becoming a useful tool in the improvement of plants and plant-based raw materials. Risk assessment studies are needed for the safe commercial use of transgenic plants. Risk assessment for the cultivation of transgenic barley was performed in 1996 and repeated in a larger scale in 1997 in order to provide information on pollen-...

Molecular breeding is becoming a useful breeding tool in improvement of plant raw material e.g. for more easy processing. The gene for fungal thermotolerant ß-glucanase was introduced into the malting barley variety Kymppi. The gene is regulated by barley e-amylase promoter and is therefore functional only during germination. First results indicate...

Transgenic barley plants (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Kymppi) were obtained by particle bombardment of various tissues. Immature embryos and microspore-derived cultures were bombarded with gold particles coated with plasmid DNA carrying the gene coding for neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPTII), together with plasmid DNA containing the gene for β-glucur...

This article deals with the results achieved in the breeding of six-row barley at Hankkija Plant Breeding Institute since the beginning of scientific barley breeding in the 1910s, with special reference to earliness and genetic origin of the varieties. In Finland, barley is grown in the northern border of plant production up to the 67th parallel. T...

Proc. 20th Int. Congr. of EBC. Helsinki 1985, 659 - 666