Registration of ‘Rasmusson’ Barley

All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or trans mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Permission for printing and for reprinting the material contained herein has been obtained by the publisher. ‘Rasmusson’ (Reg. No. CV-345, PI 658495) is a spring, six-rowed, malting barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivar released by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in 2008. It was named after Donald Rasmusson, who worked as a barley breeder at the University of Minnesota from 1958 to 2000. Rasmusson was tested in the Mississippi Valley Barley Nursery (MVBN) under the experimental line number M109 from 2001 to 2005 and was entered into American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) pilot malting evaluations in 2001 and plant-scale brewing evaluations in 2005. Rasmusson was released based on its superior yield performance, acceptable malting quality, and in particular, high malt extract. Rasmusson is a selection from a cross between the parents M95 and ‘Lacey’, which in turn are derived from other elite breeding lines and cultivars developed at the University of Minnesota (Fig. 1). M95 was a cultivar candidate Registration of ‘Rasmusson’ Barley