‘TSHEDRY’ IS A NEW DROUGHT RESISTANT FORAGE VARIETY OF SPRING BARLEY

Abstract

Barley is one of the basic crops cultivated in the world along with rice, wheat and maize (corn). Basic areas of barley in RF are located in the regions with insufficient and unstable moisture. The monitoring of agro climatic factors of the region showed that in the cold period the amount of precipitations increased, but in the main period of vegetation (May-July) it decreased. Due to aridity of climate during last 15 years the old varieties turned to be unadapted to increased drought. That’s why it’s necessary to select new barley varieties, adapted to changing weather-climatic conditions to supply husbandry with constant fodder. A new spring barley variety ‘Tshedry’ which is more adapted to dry climate has been created and zoned in All-Russian Research Institute of Grain Crops after I.G. Kalinenko. In 2008 a spring barley variety ‘Tshedry’ was submitted for study in State Variety Center of RF. In 2011 it was included into the State Register of RF in the 6-th region, in 2013 in the 8-th region, in 2015 in the 5-th region of RF. Under progressing climate aridity of last years a new spring barley variety ‘Tshedry’ gives higher yields due to a full ear with large grain and strong biological resistance to drought during all periods of vegetation.

Keywords

• barley
• variety
• climate aridity
• drought resistance (tolerance)
• productivity