SELECTION OF HIGH-PRODUCING VARIETIES AND LINES OF COMMON VETCH FOR ALTAI TERRITORY

Abstract

A description of common vetch as a valuable fodder crop is given. Results of a complex evaluation of the ten vetch varieties and lines are presented. A number of economic and biological traits were analyzed: plant height, days to ripeness, resistance to lodging and fungoid diseases, foliage, grain protein content, density of stand, grain weight per plant, 1000-kernel weight, seed and fodder yield. The advanced lines G-10, Baikalskaya ґ TK4604/1-2 and Belosemyannaya SK were the best ones as to a complex of features. They did not yield to the standard in the height and plant stand vigor, earliness, resistance to lodging and fungoid diseases, and were superior to it in foliage, grain protein content, grain weight per plant, seed size, seed and fodder yield. We together with the Siberian Research Institute of Plant Production and Breeding will transfer one of them to the State variety trial after comprehensive specification and necessary seed multiplication. Among the vetch varieties, Novosibirskaya was superior as to a complex of agronomic traits.