Roseland hulless food barley

This article is a cultivar description for a new food barley cultivar developed at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon Research and Development Centre, Brandon, MB and registered under the name Roseland. Roseland is a two-row, hulless, spring barley; which means that only the central spikelet is fertile (i.e. two-row) with an easier-to-remove hull (i.e. hulless) and is adapted to spring-time growing conditions across all regions of western Canada. It has higher average grain weight (i.e. test weight), improved stem breakage (i.e. lodging resistance) and disease resistance than the cultivar Millhouse which was used for comparison (i.e. check cultivar) while in the registration tests. In terms of quality, Roseland was found to have similar flour quality characteristics to Falcon barley (common Canadian source of commercial barley flour) and thus is recommended as milling barley.