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Farmer participatory evaluation ofbread wheat varieties - Kassa et al.
Table 1.
List of bread wheat varieties used for evaluation with their pedigree, seed
color, year of release and production status .
. . pays to \ , .' .Seed Yearof . Production :
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Variety 'Cross/pedigree . mat(ifity . coior . . release .. ' " statp~ '* .'
Galama 4777* 211FLN/GB/3IPVN 135 White 1995 WG
Kubsa ATTILA 131 " 1994 WG
Dashen KVZIBUHO/ !KALiBB 136 " 1984 WG
Mitike BOW28 XRBC 135 " 1993 WG
Abolla SERI/BOW"S"/BUC"S" 130 " 1996 EXPA.
Wabe MAIORALIBUCKBUCK 130 " 1994 WG
Tusie COOKIVEE"S"//DOVE"S" 127 " 1996 EXPA.
ET-13 ENKOYlUQ105 132 " 1981 WG
WG = wIdely grown; EXPA = Expandmg
* =adapted from: Payne et al. (1996).
Table. 2
Mean values of grain and biomass yield and harvest index of the eight
Ethiopian bread wheat varieties at Gudar, 1997-98.
Variety Grain yield (t/ha) BioQIassyield(tJha). Harvest- inde~
Galama 2.893 a* 7.280 a* 0.397
Kubsa 2.552 b 6.818 ab 0.372
Dashen 2.449 be 6.503 abe 0.377
Mitike 2.458 be 7.065 ab 0.351
Abolla 2.192 be 6.312 be 0.344
Wabe 2.242 be 5.888 e 0.384
Tusie 2.117 c 5.835 c 0.363
ET-13 2.362 be 6.458 abe 0.362
Mean 2.408 6.520 0.369
S.E. 0.1155 0.2649 0.0129
LSD(0.05) 0.3345 0.7644 0.0374
C.V.(%) 11.77 9.96 8.82
Means followed by the same letter are not slgmficantly dIfferent at P = 0.05.
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