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COMPARISON OF DOUBLE HAPLOID BARLEY (Hordeum vulgare L.) LINES AND NATIVE CULTIVARS IN A SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENT

Cengiz TOKER, M. İlhan ÇAĞIRGAN

Abstract

A total of 310 double haploid barley lines with their parents and three native checks were compared in an augmented experimental design in the highland of the west Mediterranean region of Turkey in the 1993-94 growing season. In the following growing season, the selected lines were grown in a Randomised Complete Blocks design with 3 replications in order to compare them with three native cultivars. It was found that the heterogeneous landrace, Kılınç-B (white) performed better than the homozygous doubled-haploid lines in the semi-dry site. Generally, the early heading and taller genotypes were higher yielding than the late heading and shorter ones. Also, natural selection over years on landrace has resulted in the development of specific genes tolerating stress environments such as drought. So high yielding performance of the landrace, Kılınç-B (white), could be explained with this phenomenon.

Keyword: genotypes ,natural selection ,stress environments ,

Effects of Different Water Stress Levels on Biomass Yield and Agronomic Traits of Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) Varieties under Semi-Arid Conditio

Erdal GONULAL, Suleyman SOYLU, Mehmet SAHIN

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted in the Wielkopolska region at the Gorzyń Research Station, Poland (52.34°N, 15.54°E) in Central Europe. The study was conducted over a 3-year period (2017, 2018, 2019) as a two-factorial design with four replications in the RCBD. The aim of the research was to determine the effect of the cultivar (‘Bolero’, ‘Tytan’) and the inoculation (Nitragina–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora I–seeds inoculation, Nitroflora II–soil inoculation, HiStick® Lupin–seeds inoculation) on plant development, seeds chemical composition and yielding of narrow-leaved lupin. The weather conditions and experimental factors significantly influenced on productivity of narrow-leaved lupin ‘Tytan’. Drought during the growing season reduced seeds and protein yields. After inoculation of HiStck the seeds yield was significantly greater by 12.4% (p < 0.01) and the protein yield after application of Nitroflora I or HiStick by 13.9% (p < 0.01) and 19.2% (p < 0.01), respectively. Correlation coefficients showed strong relations between number of pods and seeds per plant in both cultivars regardless of the inoculation variant, however the strongest relations in both cultivar were proved on HiStick treatment.
Keyword: Biological nitrogen fixation, chemical composition, legumes, protein efficiency, yielding