Barley Malt Quality Evaluation Short Course

August 17-20, 2010

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Paul Schwarz, Ph.D., NDSU Professor of Plant Sciences, coordinated and lectured in the course.

NCI Director Brian Sorenson welcomes the participants to the short course.

Lynn Dahleen, Ph.D., USDA Northern Crop Science Laboratory, explains barley tissue culture procedures to class participants.

USDA/ARS technician Rachel Krein shows short course participants methods for particle bombardment transformation of barley. The machine to her left is a gene gun and Rachel is preparing a plastic disc containing DNA-coated gold particles before inserting it into the gene gun.

A class participant examines the micro malting equipment in the NDSU Barley and Malt Quality Laboratory.

Paul Schwarz explains how research malting procedures are conducted in the NDSU Barley and Malt Quality Laboratory.