Genetics and Improvement of Barley Malt Quality presents up-to-date deVelopments in ba rley production and breeding.The book is diVided into nine chapters,including barley production and consumption,germplasm and utilization,chemical composition,protejn and protein components,carbohydrates and sugars,starch degrading enzymes,endosperm cell walls and malting quality,genomicsand malting quality improVement,and marker-assisted selection for malting quality The information will be especially usefulto barley breeders,malsters,brewers,biochemists,barley quaIity specialists, molecular geneticists,and biotechnologists.rrhis book may also serve as reference text for post-graduate students and ba rley l esearchers.The authors flor each chapter are the experts and frontier researchers in the specific areas.