Mortality of tillers in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is an important developmental event affecting spike number and yield potential of the crop. It has traditionally been thought that increased shading of young tillers by the developing canopy initiates the premature senescence of tillers. A series of field experiments were conducted in 1982, 1983, and 1984 at St. Paul, MN on a Waukegan silt loa...

A damage rating scale for wheat and barley seedlings was developed by Webster et al. (1991) based on visual The Russian wheat aphid (RWA), Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko), rating of leaf chlorosis, leaf streaking, and leaf spotting. has become a major pest of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in the This visual rating was on a scale of 1 to 9 (1 no western USA. STARS-9577B (PI 591617), a six-rowed, sprin...