Report on Barley Line Evaluation 2010

The main objective of the line evaluation program is to plant the best lines from the two different South African breeding programmes under the exact same conditions (soil, climate and management) in order to ensure that the yield, grading characteristics and malting quality results of the lines from the different breeding programmes could be evaluated on a more comparative basis.

During the 2010 season, 12 trials were planted under dry land conditions in the Southern Cape. All the trials, with the exception of Rietpoel and Heidelberg Vlakte, were harvested and used for evaluation of the lines in the trial. Both mentioned trials unfortunately experienced severe the decision was not to hherbicide damage and although Heidelberg Vlakte was replanted the late drought had a severe effect on this trial and arvest it.

This report, downloadable in PDF format, covers all the line evaluation trials as executed by Sabbi, SGI and SABM during the 2010 season. The relevant climatic data, agronomic data, grading characteristics and yield results will be represented.

During the 2010 season, six trials were planted under irrigation in the Northern Cape. All the trials were harvested, and used for evaluation of the lines in the trial.

This report, downloadable in PDF format, covers all the line evaluation trials as executed by Sabbi, SGI and SABM during the 2010 season.