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PegasusAX
Barley
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Carries CoAXium® herbicide tolerance (Aggressor® herbicide)
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A derivative of Rosalind with a similar plant type, offering a shorter plant structure and lower risk of lodging than the ‘Compass’ plant types like Titan AX
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Wide adaptation
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Quick-mid maturity, similar to Maximus CL and Rosalind
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Similar grain size as some other high yielding feed varieties including Rosalind
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FEED quality only
Breeders comments
PegasusAX carries tolerance to Sipcam Aggressor® herbicide (Group 1, Quizalofop-P-Ethyl), which allows growers to control susceptible populations of barley grass, brome grass, annual ryegrass, wild oats and other grass weeds in the barley phase of the rotation; offering an alternative to Clearfield® technology which growers have relied on for some time now.
Opportunistically discovered by Eyre Peninsula farmer Shannan Larwood in 2010, and further developed by the University of Adelaide, this novel herbicide tolerance trait has been bred into a range of widely adapted, high yielding backgrounds; with PegasusAX being released to complement its stablemate Titan AX.
Whilst Titan AX is in a ‘Compass’ style plant type (generally typified by good early vigour, a tall plant type more prone to lodging, and more suited to low-medium rainfall environments), PegasusAX is in a ‘Hindmarsh’ type background, offering a shorter, more compact plant type, and better suitability to medium-high rainfall environments.
Like it’s parent Rosalind, PegasusAX produces smaller grain. PegasusAX is a feed only variety.
PegasusAX has produced yields similar to Titan AX and Maximus CL.