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Retriever

Variety notes - Winter Barley
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  • 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.

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