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SPECTRUM is a high yielding 2 row winter barley with Barley Yellow Mosaic Virus resistance. It has short straw with the best resistance to lodging available. This is combined with good all round disease resistance and early maturity.

PEDIGREE: Pearl x Camera

VERY HIGH YIELDING
  TREATED TRIALS UNTREATED TRIALS
SPECTRUM 100 76
Camion 101 80
Pearl 97 79

 

REGIONAL TREATED TRIALS
  SPECTRUM Camion Pearl
NORTH 102 102 99
EAST 99 101 96
WEST 100 100 98

Spectrum is consistently high yielding in all areas of the UK.

BEST AVAILABLE RESISTANCE TO LODGING
  SPECTRUM Camion Pearl
Resistance to lodging 9 7 7
Straw height (cm) 91 94 105

Spectrum has short, extremley stiff straw.

MEDIUM EARLY MATURITY
  SPECTRUM Camion Pearl
Ripening (days +/- Pearl) -3 -3 0


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