• Retriever is a very high treated yield - competitive with the non-hybrid six-row varieties - and has performed especially well in the North.

• High untreated yield.

• Short straw.

• Early maturing.

• Good resistance to Rhynchosporium and moderately good resistance to yellow rust and net blotch.

• Resistant to the common strains of barley mosaic viruses (BaYMV strain 1 and BaMMV).

• Low specific weight.

• Breeder: Sejet, Denmark.

• Breeder/ UK Agent: Nickerson (www.nickersonseeds.co.uk ).

Page updated November 2007.