The Oregon Promise Barley Population: A tool for understanding the genetic basis of traits fundamental for barley production, malting, brewing, and distilling

The simultaneous availability of unique germplasm resources and cost-effective high-throughput genotyping allows for accelerated genome exploration and gene discovery. Our germplasm -the Oregon Promise population- is an array of 200 barley doubled haploids developed from the cross of Full Pint x Golden Promise. The spring 2-row parents have contrasting alleles at two of the dwarfing genes deployed in current varieties. The four homozygous combinations of these plant height alleles lead to contrasting phenotypes and each allele has pleiotropic effects on a range of other traits. Golden Promise is an iconic variety for malting, brewing, and distilling; Full Pint is a contributor to the craft brew Renaissance. Accordingly, the Oregon Promise will provide a valuable resource for extending current knowledge of malting and brewing genes to the frontiers of sensory assessment. The population shows transgressive segregation for adult plant resistance to stripe rust. As this disease is likely to become increasingly prevalent as a consequence of climate change, expanding the catalog of genes conferring durable resistance to this pathogen is an essential defensive breeding step. The availability of a quick-turnaround and cost effective SNP genotyping service (400+ markers) at Eureka Genomics (developed in collaboration with the James Hutton Institute) allows accelerated linkage map construction, QTL detection, and unraveling of gene interactions and pleiotropic effects based on the multi-environment, multi-trait phenotyping of the Oregon Promise population. This project is possible thanks to the tools and knowledge generated by the USDA-NIFA T-CAP project.Peer Reviewe

Novel PVDF Membranes for Desalination by Membrane Distillation

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Novel polytetrafluoroethylene tubular membranes for membrane distillation

reserved6This paper deals with the preparation of novel polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membranes from an aqueous dispersion of fluorinated polymer and a pore forming agent (PFA) sintered onto the outer surface of a porous tubular support. Different membranes were obtained by varying the ratio between PTFE and PFA in the starting dispersion as well as the number of dispersion layers sintered on the support. Membranes were characterized through scanning electron microscopy and gas–liquid displacement porosimetry. Distillation tests of the membrane were carried out on a laboratory scale unit fed with a NaCl solution. The characteristics and performance of the membranes were compared with those of commercial porous PTFE tubulets.mixedBottino, Aldo; Capannelli, Gustavo; Comite, Antonio; Costa, Camilla; CALVO JOSE, Ignacio; Saelee, RattanaBottino, Aldo; Capannelli, Gustavo; Comite, Antonio; Costa, Camilla; CALVO JOSE, Ignacio; Saelee, Rattan

Intranet Mediators (Spring 2001) EnPRO 307

Current web search engines only search unstructured data (web documents). A lot of data is available that is structured (weather, census, sports, etc.). A search engine that could search both structured data and text would be able to answer questions such as "show me the top three restaurants in Chicago" without simply looking for the word "three." The team has been building a Java-based metasearch engine in IPRO 334 duringFall 2000. Numerous issues have arisen. How do we identify which data source will be best for the query? What is the best user interface for the system? For Spring 2001, the team will extend the search engine to include more sources. The team could really use the talents of non-computer science students to help test the system and improve the user interface. Students should plan to work on this at least ten hours a week - anything less will resultin a poor grade for the IPRO. Students for this IPRO are graded heavily based on the success of the team, not just individual performance. Weekly progress reports are required. Note that graduate students in Computer Science are not able to use IPRO classes for credit toward a graduate degree.Sponsorship: IIT Internal R&DProject Plan for EnPRO 307: Intranet Mediators for the Spring 2001 semeste

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