Narrative
Midseason, short-stature, hulled winter feed barley. Juvenile plants exhibit semi-prostrate growth habit in early spring, flag leaves glossy and upright at booting, leaf sheaths waxy and anthocyanin is not present in leaves or stems. Stems comprised of five nodes, exertion moderate, collar closed to V-shape, and neck is straight. Spikes erect, strap, and slightly waxy with pronounced overlapping lateral kernels. Rachis covered with hairs. Glumes short, completely covered with long hairs, and their awns rough and equal to the glumes in length. Lemmas hairy, have a depressed base, and their awns short and rough. Rachilla hairs long. Seed hulled, short to midlong, semiwrinkled, with colorless aleurone, and lacking hairs on the ventral furrow. On average, head emergence is 111 days and 2-3 days later than Callao. Average plant height (86 cm) is 4 cm taller than Callao. On the basis of Belgium lodging score (0.2=no lodging, 10=completely lodged) straw strength (1.0) excellent in comparison with Callao (5.0). Expressed good winter-hardiness (92% survival) in comparison with Wysor (95%), a very winter-hardy cultivar. In the 1998-2000 USDA-ARS Uniform Barley Winter Hardiness Nurseries, had a three-year mean survival score of 72%, compared with 63% for Tennessee Winter, 82% for Kentucky 1, and 45% for the winter-tender check Trebi. Disease assessments (0=immune to 4=highly susceptible) of seedling conducted in greenhouse tests from 1997-2000, highly resistant (infection type=0;N) to leaf rust (Puccinia hordei) race 8, but is moderately susceptible (IT=2+) to race 30. Seedlings moderately susceptible (IT=34) to powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis). In field tests (1997-2001), adult-plants have expressed resistance to powdery mildew(0.4) and barley yellow dwarf virus (1.5). Moderate resistance to moderate susceptibility to leaf rust (4.2), scald (4.0) (Rhynchosporium secalis), and net blotch (4.6) (Pyrenophora teres).