Om Parkash BISHNOI, Suresh SURESH, Rishi Kumar BEHL

Comparative Performance of Triticale Genotypes in North Wes tern Plain Zone of India for Grain Yield and its Attributes

The man-made cereal triticale is gaining importance globally. Though, little work has been done in India yet, the results of coordinated trials conducted over two years i.e.2013-14 and 2014-15 are quite encouraging. Seven triticale genotypes were evaluated agains t two bread wheat checks i.e.HD 2967 and WH 1105 in RBD design in a plot size of 2.40m x 6.0m with twelve rows in each plot spaced 20 cm with four replications at CCS HAU, Hisar research farm. The data of grain yield from each plot (middle ten rows) was obtained and expressed in quintal per hectare. The ancillary data on days to heading, days to maturity, plant height, grain texture, grain colour and thousand grain weights were taken. In 2013-14 the mean grain yield at different centres ranged from 44.5 q/ha (Gurdaspur) to 55.8 q/ha (Ludhiana) over two locations, TL 2942 exhibited the highes t grain yield (56.6 q/ ha) agains t the bread wheat check HD 2967 (50.9 q/ha). The performance of the tes t entries was comparable to wheat checks for agronomy and grain characteris tics. For thousand grain weight the tes t entry TL 2998 (49.0 g) and TL 2997 (47.0 g) showed high mean grain weight as comparable to wheat checks WH 1105 (37.0 g) and HD 2967 (41.0 g). It was interes ting to note that none of the triticale line was found to be susceptible agains t the yellow rus t while wheat check HD 2967 showed 20s yellow rus t susceptibility. For days to maturity, days to heading, height and grain colour, the triticale lines were at par with wheat checks while the grain thresh-ability in wheat check was medium and texture was semi-hard whereas in triticale thresh-ability ranged from medium to hard and texture semi-hard to hard.

Keywords:

triticale grain yield, diseases reaction, abiotics tress,

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