Assessment of Traits in Introduced Malting Barley Varieties
LV Zhong-yu
ZHANG Zhi-heng
MA Yong-qiang
WU Gang
CHEN Yu-mei
WANG Hua-jun
Abstract：Aiming at selecting high-quality malting barley varieties suitable to be planted in Hexi areas in Gansu Province and providing a basis for breeding new malting barley varieties in the future, the present study conducted adaptive planting for 26 malting barley vari-eties introduced from other provinces, and also measured a number of trait indicators. There existed some differences in agronomic and economic traits among different barley varieties. The plant height of the variety Baodan was only 48. 78 cm, so it could be used as a special germplasm materical to reduce plant height in barley breeding. The traits of early maturity present in 24 varieties might serve as a material resource for breading early mature barley that can avoid the harm of dry-hot wind. Some cultivars including Dafu 1, Bao-dan, and Ebarley 9 were superior in some traits to the control Ganpi 5. Based on the data of these agronomic and economic traits, a clustering analysis was performed, which divided 27 barley cultivars into two categories, reflecting a certain degree of genetic differ-ences among these introduced cultivars.
Keywords：Malting barleyTraitsDry-hot wind
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 14-18 )