Modern

Originator – Plant Production Institute named after V.Ya. Yuriev of NAAS.

Modern was included in the State Register of Plant Varieties Suitable for Dissemination in Ukraine in 2011 for growing in the Steppe.

Variety – inerme

Ripeness group – mid-ripening.

Plant height = 80 cm. 1000-grain weight = 45-47 g. Protein content = 12.0-13.0 %.

There are odontoid outgrowths on the outer lemma instead of awns. The spike is two-row, has a thick waxy coating.

The cultivar is very resistant to drought; it is a source of group resistance to the pathogens of loose and head smuts.

The potential yield is 8.0 t/ha. Under production conditions, the yield from this cultivar amounted to 5.62 t/ha (Kirovohrad State Agricultural Research Station, 2015) and 5.87 t/ha (SE Experimental Farm Salyvonkivske, Kyivska Oblast, 2015).

Farming techniques are conventional for the growing zone. Sowing is early.