The research was carried out during (2008-2009) and (2009-2010) in Fedio farm belonging to the Faculty of Agriculture to study the effect of various systems of tillage on the growth and productivity of Barley.
The results showed that the bulk densit
y increases with the first tillage system (control), comparing with the other tillage systems, but all of them were less than the control (no- tillage). The number of weeds increased when using the 6-th tillage system. The germination rate was affected by the tillage systems. The 6-th tillage system was the best. The weight of 1000 seeds and productivity increased by the 1-th tillage system (no-tillage) comparing with the other tillage systems. The number of weeds increased, but germination rate and weight of 1000 seeds decreased by using the 6-th tillage system. The yield of barley increased when using the 6-th tillage system. No-tillage system was the most economic compared with the others.
The research aims to study the effects of the climatic elements, rain, dry heat and drought on
wheat and barley production (irrigated and rain-fed) in al-Hasakah station in the Eastern Province,
In order to achieve the objectives of the research a
series of pen'ds of time extending from 2001 to
2010, was adopted Based on the indexes, rates growth and multiple regression the most important
results were as the Following, relation:
1- There is a very strong and statistically significant between the irrigated wheat production
and rainfall, dry heat and drought index, wch was the most influential, effed followed by
precipitation drought index, and by dry heat.
2- There is no statistically significant relationship between rain-Fed wheat production and
rainfall dry heat or drought index.
3- There is a strong and statistically significant relationship between the production of
irrigated barley and rainfall, dry heat and drought index, The most influential effed was drought
index, followed by dry heat, and precipitation.
4- There is no statistically significant relationship between the production of rain-Fed barley
and rainfall and dry heat or drought index.
A half diallel set of crosses among six highly diverse barley (Hordeum
vulgare L.) genotypes were evaluated at Karahta Research Station, General
Commission of Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), during 2010-2011
and 2011-2012 seasons to stud
y heterosis, potence ratio, correlations among
traits and path coefficient analysis for number of spikes per plant, number of
grains per plant, number of grains per spike, biological yield ,and grain yield
per plant. Heterosis effects for seed yield ranged from%-89.52 (T-6669×S-6303)
to%16.99 (Arabi abiad mohsan×S-6689) and from%-49.94 (L-6711×S-6689)
to %-1. 35 (Arabi abiad mohsan×S-6689) relative to mid and better parents
respectively. Potence ratio values ranged from 1.14 (number of spikes per
plant) to 3.50 (biological weight) indicating that non-additive gene action was
more important in controlling all studied traits. Correlation coefficients among
traits indicated that seed yield was positively and significantly associated with
each of number of spikes per plant (0.289), number of grains per plant (0.832),
number of grains per spike (0.587), and biological yield (0.708) traits. Path
coefficient analysis indicated that number of grains per plant trait had high
positive direct effects on grain yield.
A half diallel set of crosses among six highly diverse barley (Hordeum
vulgare L.) genotypes were evaluated at Karahta station of field crops research
(GCSAR) Damascus Governorate, during 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons to
study heterosis and comb
ining ability components for plant height, grain yield
per plant, number of spikes per plant, number of grains per spike and
thousand kernel weight.
The performance of some barley genotypes was evaluated under rain-fed
conditions in Dara'a (Izra'a) during two successive growing seasons (2009-2010/
2010-2011) in order to determine the most relevant physiological traits, which
are genetically as
sociated with drought tolerance and grain yield. The trial was
laid out according to the factorial complete randomized block design, with
three replicates. The leaf area index (LAI) was significantly lower in the wild
relatives compared with the varieties and land races. Relative water content
was significantly higher during the second growing season (87.19%) compared
with the first one (71.57%). Solute leakage was significantly lower during the
second growing season (69.50%) compared with the first growing season
(76.49%). It was noticed that the genotypes which have achieved significantly
higher grain yields, could also maintain significantly higher relative water
content in the leaves, (Acsad176, Acsad1182 and Acsad60), and were superior in
maintaining membrane integrity, and leaf area index, indicating the
importance of such traits in improving drought tolerance and maintaining
production capacity.
This research was carried out during both growing seasons 2009/10 -
2010/11 at the National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension
(NCARE) / Karak Governorate / Jordan, to study the response of five barley
varieties namely Mu'tah, Yarmok,
Athroh, Rum and Acsad-176 to the effect of
four seeding rates (50, 100, 150 and 200kg/ha) and five nitrogen fertilizer levels
(0, 15, 30, 45 and 60kg/ha) on the productivity of grain and straw, the harvest
index and some phenological indicators.
Understanding the relationship between root system and shoot related traits
is an important objective in crop breeding programs. Canonical correlation
analysis has been adopted to study the strength of association between the root
morphological tr
aits and shoot morphological traits under low-moisture stress
and well-watered conditions and to find the root morphological characters that
have the largest influence on shoot-related traits in seedling stage. Most of the
traits under study revealed a significant reduction under low-moisture stress
condition except root length which showed a significant increasing under the
same condition. Root length and root number were had the largest effect on
shoot dry weight and plant height under low-moisture stress and well-watered
condition. The results of cumulative redundancy showed that about 45% of the
total variability in the shoot-related characters is accounted for by the root
morphological characters under control condition and this percentage reduced
up to 41% under moisture stress.
A laboratory experiment was conducted during 2002-003. The purpose was
to develop an effective and rapid screening tool to assess the genetic variability
for the response of some local barley varieties to polyethylene glycol- induced
osmotic stres
s at early growth stage. Also this will help to evaluate the relevance
of pre-exposure of barley seedlings to sub-lethal (induction) levels of osmotic
stress. This might enhance the capacity of seedlings to tolerate the lethal levels
of stress.
In Syria, Barley is grown under rainfed conditions in areas receive less than 300mm
(zones: 2, 3 and 4), which is characterized by limited water availability and large year to
year variability in both total rainfall and distribution . A biotic stre
sses such as drought,
cold, heat , salinity and biotic stresses in addition to low soil fertility and the traditional
methods in agriculture production are the limiting factors for barley productivity in
Syria. In these agro-climatic environments, landraces and their wild relatives are
considered to be very useful as main sources of genetic materials in breeding programs,
also its widely recognized that these materials could be an important source of useful
genetic variation. A study of the genetic structure of landraces may explain to what
extent their adaptation to harsh environments is associated with remote or continuous
introgression of H. spontaneum, and hence indicates an additional avenue to improve
barley yield and its stability in dry areas. The ability of pure lines to sustain yield and
stability in dry areas highly correlated with its heterogeneity. and the mixture of several
lines gave higher productivity than the pure line Arabi asswad.
The objectives of this work were to study the relationships between the genotype and
environment interaction, to evaluate and compare the performance of number of
populations and barleymixtures with pure barley lines under rainfed conditions (Zone2)
in Tel Hadya Research Station (35 Km South of Aleppo city).
The study also aimed to investigate the population dynamic behavior of three pure
lines of barley in pure stands and in mixtures, each pure line being selected from
landraces of three climatically/ ecologically different regions in Syria and Jordan.
The results showed that, in spit of the narrow genetic variation between the
experimental materials, the variations were very wide and obvious for most of the studid
characteristics, mainly on grain yield (3.25-5.17 ton/ha) and biological yield 7.4 – 11.9.
The variation was due to highly productive tillers, 1000 kernel weight and grain size as
well as the morphological and phenological characteristics. The environmental conditions
during the three seasons did not allow the evaluation of the reaction of the Mixtures and
Populations even though mixture 2, which consists of 1: 2: 1 of zanbaka, Arta and Wadi
Al-Hassa showed a very good performance in grain yield, biological yield and many other
characteristics such as grain weight, harvest index, threshing percentage, grain number
and grain weight. It is expected that pure lines will perform better in favorable and
stable conditions and mixtures and some populations will play a very important role
under stressed environments.
WI٢٢٩١ and Tadmor, two barley lines widely grown in the Mediterranean
region were tested for powdery mildew (Erysiphe graminis f. sp. hordei)
resistance together with the European differential tester set against six powdery
mildew isolates. The si
x cultures of powdery mildew developed from single
colonies were comprised of four powdery mildew isolates originating from Syrian barley lines and two cultures originating from Danish barley lines.
