A 2-row winter barley with a high yield potential (3% above Pearl) and promising malting potential.

Cassata has moderately short straw with good lodging resistance in treated and untreated trials.

Cassata has good disease resistance particularly to Rhynchosporium and brown rust and the commonly occuring strains of Barley Mosaic Virus (BYMV)

Cassata is currently in its first year of Recommended List trials and will be considered for addition to the HGCA RL in the autumn of 2006.

Parentage: Opal x NSL 96/7517

All information is a partial extraction from the nickerson website and also the HGCA Recommended List 2007/8. See www.nickersonuk.com and also www.hgca.com for the full dataset

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