MERLIN

An early oat with high yield and good quality grain, particularly resistant to powdery mildew and leaf diseases, also suitable for organic farms

• High grain yield
• Tall plants with improved lodging resistance
• Very good resistance to stem breaking
• Big grain with very high TGW and tillering capacity
• Exceptional resistance to powdery mildew and leaf diseases

• High yields, both with and without seed treating
• Yield potential – 6.88-7.71 t/ha (2018-2020)
• Heading time – medium
• Number of days to heading – 68 days
• Maturity – early
• Number of days to maturity – 120 days
• Plant height – tall (104 cm)
• Tillering – high
• Resistance to lodging – good (6 points)
• Resistance to stem breakage – very good (8 points)
• Resistance to powdery mildew – very good
• Resistance to leaf diseases – very good
• The colour of the grain hull – yellow
• Grains – coarse
• 1000 grain weight – high (40 g)
• Hull content – low (25 %)
• Due to low hull content, low losses in mills
• Hull separates easily
• Protein content – ​​high (13.0 %)
• Hectolitre weight – 51.4 kg/hl
• Suitable for both,  conventional and organic farming

Resistance to diseases (when 9.0 – very resistant)

• English farmer got 6.8-8.3 t/ha oat yield in 2023 (he grew 70 ha of oat MERLIN) (other farmers got 5-6 t/ha)
• In 2023, the average hectoliter weight for oat MERLIN at English farms was 56-68 kg/hl

• Yield with treated seeds – 103 % of tested control
• Yield after failure – 99 % from tested control
• Stem length – 106 cm
• Resistance to lodging – 7-8 points
• Resistance to powdery mildew – 8 points (3.1%)
• Resistance to crown rust – 4 points (6.7%)
• Hectoliter weight – 50.7-51.1 kg/hl

*According to research in England (AHDB 2024)

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam