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Technical Bulletin: Sundre Feed Barley | |
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| | Sundre is a 6-rowed, smooth-awned, hulled feed barley developed by the Field Crop Development Centre (FCDC) in Lacombe and registered in 2005. It has high grain and silage yields in central Alberta, with good kernel weight and seed plumpness. Sundre is marketed by Mastin Seeds Ltd., Sundre, Alberta.
Sundre was tested as BT 566 in the Western Cooperative Barley Trials from 2003 to 2004 and in FCDC trials as H92068001 from 2000 to 2004. Its pedigree is BT636/Tukwa. Morphological distinguishability: yellow aleurone, and a long rachilla with long hairs.
In FCDC silage trials, Sundre out-yielded the high yielding six-rowed varieties Vivar and AC Lacombe. Sundre has multiple gene resistance to scald, as shown in multi-station, multi-year trials. It has resistance to covered smut and false loose smut. Sundre is a desirable multi-purpose variety for the livestock industry.
Strengths
- Overall yields similar to AC Rosser and exceeding AC Lacombe by 5%.
- Yields in the Western Black soils exceed AC Rosser by up to 7%.
- Sundre out yields Vivar in all yield class environments.
- Sundre has multiple gene resistance to scald; it has shown resistance in Lacombe, Edmonton and CIMMYT / ICARDA (Mexico) nurseries.
- High test weight: 2% greater than AC Rosser, 3% greater than AC Lacombe.
- High % plump seed: 4% greater than AC Rosser, and 7% greater than AC Lacombe.
- High silage yield: 12% or greater than FCDC checks Vivar and AC Lacombe.
- Resistant to covered smut (Ustilago hordei) and false loose smut (U. nigra)
Neutral traits
- Straw strength equal to Coop checks.
- MR-MS for net blotch (spot form) and spot blotch.
- FHB levels equal to checks.
- Stem rust MR-MS rating.
Weaknesses
- Susceptible to septoria, loose smut (U. nuda), net blotch (net form), and common root rot.
Western Cooperative 6-Row Barley Trials
Summary of Yield and Agronomic Data for all Stations Averaged for 2003 and 2004
Entry Name | Yield
(kg/ha) | Days to
Head | Days to
Maturity | Height
(cm) | Lodging
(0-9 Scale) | Test Wt.
(kg/hl) | Kernel Wt.
(g) | % Plump
> 6/64 | %
Protein |
| CDC Sisler | 5594.9 | 59.2 | 93.4 | 93.0 | 4.6 | 61.8 | 36.1 | 90.7 | 13.3 |
| Excel | 5663.9 | 57.8 | 94.1 | 82.6 | 4.2 | 62.3 | 38.4 | 89.3 | 12.9 |
| AC Lacombe | 5995.9 | 57.8 | 93.1 | 85.9 | 4.6 | 60.8 | 39.8 | 79.8 | 12.5 |
| AC Rosser | 6331.4 | 58.0 | 94.4 | 83.1 | 5.4 | 61.3 | 39.5 | 83.4 | 12.5 |
| Sundre | 6319.2 | 59.7 | 94.7 | 87.7 | 5.5 | 62.5 | 39.1 | 87.4 | 12.8 |
| # Station years | 38 | 30 | 32 | 36 | 16 | 32 | 32 | 25 | 4 |
Western Cooperative 6-Row Barley Trials
Yield (kg/ha) by Soil Zone 2003-2004
Entry | Eastern
Black | % of
AC Rosser | Brown | % of
AC Rosser | Western
Black | % of
AC Rosser | Grey
Wooded | % of
AC Rosser |
| CDC Sisler | 5735.0 | 87 | 5281.3 | 87 | 6076.2 | 90 | 4855.0 | 94 |
| Excel | 5976.4 | 91 | 5168.2 | 85 | 6328.1 | 94 | 4325.0 | 83 |
| AC Lacombe | 6110.1 | 93 | 5670.6 | 94 | 6725.2 | 100 | 4893.4 | 94 |
| AC Rosser | 6585.2 | 100 | 6064.1 | 100 | 6734.1 | 100 | 5179.9 | 100 |
| Sundre | 6187.4 | 94 | 6115.0 | 101 | 7250.0 | 108 | 5496.4 | 106 |
| # Stn Years | 16 | - | 10 | - | 8 | - | 4 | - |
Field Crop Development Centre
Yield Data (kg/ha) by Yield Class 2000-2004
Yield Class | < 4.0 t/Ha | 4.0 - 6.0 t/Ha | 6.0-8.0 t/Ha | >8.0 t/Ha | Overall | Overall
% AC Lacombe |
| Entry | (kg/ha) | (kg/ha) | (kg/ha) | (kg/ha) | (kg/ha) | (%) |
| AC Lacombe | 3751.0 | 5327.2 | 6861.5 | 9424.7 | 5602.7 | 100.0 |
| Vivar | 3715.0 | 5348.5 | 7431.0 | 9566.1 | 5698.0 | 101.7 |
| Sundre | 4040.0 | 5966.5 | 7582.0 | 9867.7 | 6123.8 | 109.3 |
| Station Yrs | 15 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 43 | - |
Field Crop Development Centre
Agronomic Data 2002-2004
Entry | Maturity
(days) | 1000KWT
(g) | Test Wt.
(kg/hl) | Anthesis
(days) | Height
(cm) | %Plump
(%) | Lodging
(0-9) | Lodging
Stage Percent Scale |
| AC Lacombe | 94.8 | 41.3 | 61.1 | 56.1 | 83.3 | 42.6 | 2.3 | 208 |
| Vivar | 96.5 | 42.5 | 61.4 | 57.7 | 73.2 | 63.2 | 1.7 | 205 |
| Sundre | 98.6 | 42.0 | 63.7 | 58.4 | 82.7 | 70.8 | 2.7 | 235 |
| Station Yrs | 36 | 40 | 40 | 36 | 36 | 29 | 3 | 3 |
Field Crop Development Centre
Silage Yield (kg/ha) Data 2000-2004
| Entry | Dry Silage Yield (kg/ha) | % AC Lacombe |
| AC Lacombe | 8554 | 100 |
| Vivar | 8416 | 97.4 |
| Sundre | 9685 | 111.8 |
| Station years | 4 | - |
Disease Rating For Sundre (BT 566)
PRRCG Barley & Oat Subcommittee - Based on 2003-2004 Cooperative Test data
| Disease | Rating |  | Disease | Rating |
| Stem rust (MCC and QCC) | MRMS | | Septoria | S |
| Spot-form of net blotch | MRMS | | Fusarium head blight | S |
| Net-form of net blotch | MS | | Common root rot | MS |
| Spot blotch | MRMS | | Loose smut | MS |
| Scald | R | | Surface-borne smuts | R |
Field Crop Development Centre
April 2006 |
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This document is maintained by Erin Collier.
This information published to the web on August 8, 2006.
Last Reviewed/Revised on September 15, 2016.
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