A University of Dundee scientist based at the James Hutton Institute has been awarded more than £600,000 to study an increasing problem with the cereal crop barley that impacts the commercially important malting process and the shelf-life of animal feed.
Dr Sarah McKim was awarded a BBSRC research grant to investigate the unfavourable trait called ‘skinning’, and to develop tools to track it in breeding populations.
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