Vol. 6 (3) : May-June 2015 issue
Green Farming Vol. 6 (3) : 580-582 ; May-June, 2015
A high yielding durum wheat variety UAS-428 released for cultivation to areas of Peninsular India
SUMA S. BIRADAR1, RUDRA V. NAIK2*, R.R. HANCHINAL3, B.N. PATIL4, I.K. KALAPPANAVAR5 and S.A. DESAI6
All India Co-ordinated Wheat Improvement Project, Main Agricultural Research Station, University Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad - 580 005 (Karnataka)
Designation : 1Jr. Breeder, 2,5,6Principal Scientist *(rudranaikv@uasd.in), 3Chairperson PPR & FRA, 4Associate Director of Research
Subject : Crop Genetics and Plant Breeding
Paper No. : P-2186
Total Pages : 3
Received : 23 June 2014
Revised accepted : 13 March 2015
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Citation :
SUMA S. BIRADAR, RUDRA V. NAIK, R.R. HANCHINAL, B.N. PATIL, I.K. KALAPPANAVAR and S.A. DESAI. 2015. A high yielding durum wheat variety UAS-428 released for cultivation to areas of Peninsular India. Green Farming Vol. 6 (3) : 580-582 ; May-June, 2015
ABSTRACT
Triticum durum is one of the important species cultivated in peninsular zone after Triticum aestivum. AICRP on wheat UAS, Dharwad has developed an elite variety UAS-428 a high yielding rust resistant durum wheat variety has been released by central sub-committee on crop standards and notifications for Peninsular zone of India under timely sown irrigated conditions during 2012. It exhibited grain yield of 47.9 q/ha and showed 14 per cent increased yield over the best check variety NIDW-295 (42 q/ha). The variety has shown better adaptability to sowing periods and possessed multiple disease resistance to prevailing rust races (brown and black rust) and spot blotch incidence. This new variety UAS 428 possessed leaf rust and stem rust resistant genes Lr 23 and Sr 11 respectively. UAS-428 has bolder seeds with grain weight of 43.79 g, higher iron (38.2 ppm) and zinc (30.4 ppm) content.
Key words :
Diversity, Gene postulation, Quality characters, Triticum durum, Varietal characters.
