Genetic evaluation of barly germplasm for lodging tolerance under sub-tropical climates of India
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Lokendra Kumar, Ramesh Pal Singh Verma, Jogendra Singh, D. Kumar, Ajit Singh Kharub, Anil Khippal, Rekha Malik, Amit Kumar Sharma, Indu Sharma. (8/2/2017). Genetic evaluation of barly germplasm for lodging tolerance under sub-tropical climates of India. Haryana, India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (ICAR-IIWBR).
Abstract
Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the most ancient crops in India and world, however in last few
decades the area of barley has come down. In India, the crop is getting revived in last two decades and its
area is more or less stabilized mainly because of increasing demand by malt and food industry. Barley crop
is bestowed with many desirable traits like salt tolerance and drought tolerance and owing of these
attributes it is most suitable crop of rain fed areas and marginal lands, but to get desirable malt quality
attributes in the grain, malt barley is being grown under high input conditions in the country. However this
crop is very prone to lodging problem and this drawback restricts its cultivation in high input conditions.
Since past few years, due to prevailing adverse climatic conditions (heavy rainfall, winds and hailstorms)
especially during crop maturity, a huge loss is occurring in the yield and quality of barley. With the
establishments of new malt and breweries units in India, the demand of quality malt is increasing year by
year and problem of lodging is resulting in shortfall in supply of quality grain to the industry. To overcome
this problem and meet out the ever growing demand of quality malt from shrinking land holdings the
development of lodging resistance varieties is the need of hour. In order to develop lodging resistant
genotypes of barley a set of 349 exotic germplasm was screened at Karnal, India during 2014-15 under
natural conditions. The crop maturity period (during February/March) was marred with frequent rains,
strong winds and hailstorm. A total of 32 genotypes were identified to have lodging tolerance along with
several desirable agronomic and physiological traits. These genotypes have great potential for high input
malt barley improvement programme in India.
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Verma, Ramesh Pal Singh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-2015