A barley cultivar, designated Salute, is disclosed. The invention relates
to the seeds of barley cultivar Salute, to the plants of barley Salute,
and to methods for producing a barley plant produced by crossing barley
cultivar Salute with itself or another barley variety. The invention also
relates to methods for producing a barley plant containing in its genetic
material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic barley plants and
plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to
barley varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from
barley cultivar Salute, to methods for producing other barley varieties,
lines or plant parts derived from barley cultivar Salute, and to the
barley plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those
methods. The invention further relates to hybrid barley seeds and plants
produced by crossing barley cultivar Salute with another barley cultivar.
This invention further relates to methods for developing other barley
varieties or breeding lines derived from variety Salute including cell
and tissue culture, haploid systems, mutagenesis, and transgenic derived
lines. Salute demonstrates a unique combination of traits for the human
food market including waxy starch, low cracking upon pearling and
increased levels of Beta-glucan fiber and Beta-glucan fiber viscosity.