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DUS Tested Species

Agricultural and vegetable species and types where the UK has DUS testing capability (including amenity grasses)

AFBI Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast

  • Festulolium
  • Hybrid ryegrass
  • Italian ryegrass
  • Perennial ryegrass
  • White clover

NIAB, Cambridge

  • Barley
  • Oat
  • Small naked oat
  • Wheat 
  • Winter oilseed rape (swede rape)
  • Fodder kale
  • Field bean
  • Fodder beet
  • Sugar beet
  • Ornamentals (please see full list here)

SASA, Edinburgh

  • Field pea
  • Potato
  • Turnip rape
  • Beetroot
  • Carrot
  • Celery
  • Celeriac
  • Brassica napus kale
  • Sprouting broccoli and broccoli
  • Brussels sprout
  • Curly and vegetable kales
  • N-type radish
  • S-type radish
  • Swede
  • Turnip
  • Broad bean
  • Runner bean
  • Vegetable pea
  • Leek
  • Onion
  • Shallot
  • Parsnip
  • Watercress (Nasturtium microphyllum Boenn. ex Rchb.) 
  • Watercress (Nasturtium officinale W. T. Aiton) 
  • Watercress (Nasturtium x sterile (Airy Shaw) Oefelein.)