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Crop Harvest Report 2011LentilsSA Lentil Variety Trial Yield Performance: 2010 (as a % of site mean) and Long term (2004-2010) Average Across Sites (as a % of site mean).MID NORTH YORKE PENINSULA SOUTH EAST MALLEE LOWER EYRE PENINSULA2010 2004-10 2010 2004-10 2010 2004-10 2010 2004-10 2010 2004-10Variety Laura RivertofieldTurret-% site Trial Mait-Mel-Min-Willa-% site Trial Mun-% site Trial Lam-% site Trial Rudall Yee-% site Trialmean # land ton laton mulka mean # dulla mean # eroo mean # lanna mean #Aldinga 96 87Boomer 111 100 90 99 20 92 99 102 104 100 24 102 7 100 3 100 7Nipper 90 93 97 95 22 102 106 100 91 94 26 95 7 95 3 95 9Northfield 88 87 20 66 88 23 89 6 87 2* 86 9Nugget 96 104 95 95 22 100 95 100 101 96 26 98 7 98 3 96 9PBA Blitz 100 90 97 101 13 96 107 100 99 101 17 101 4 104 2* 102 5PBA Bounty 94 89 99 98 22 99 104 98 105 99 26 99 7 100 3 99 9PBA Flash 96 103 105 103 22 106 94 101 99 103 26 104 7 106 3 104 9PBA Jumbo 98 103 97 105 16 120 104 112 114 107 20 107 4 106 2* 104 6CIPAL702 79 91 90 93 7 88 106 87 91 94 9 95 3Site mean 2.82 4.16 3.94 4.51 3.43 4.19 3.57yield (t/ha)% LSD 5.3 7.5 9.4 7.1 10.5 5.7 7.0(0.05)Date sown 7/6 8/6 14/6 26/5 3/6 25/5 17/5 18/6 1/6 27/5 7/6Soil type L / CLS / SCL /SCL / SCL / SCL SL /L SL /LS SCLCL LiMC LiCCLS L SCLLiCA-O rainfall 367 483 398 403 338 396 318 327 235 317 379(mm)pH (H2O) 6.6 7.7 6.2 8 7.7 8.1 8.3 6.6 8.1 6.6 8.1Site stressfactorswl ab(L)wbgmL ab(M) ab(H)bgmMabLwlwphwd pe wlwSoil type: S = sand, C = clay, L = loam, H = heavy, M = medium, Li = light, F = fine, Z = silt, / = overSite Stress Factors: de = pre flowering moisture stress, fr = reproductive frost damage, dl = post flowering moisture stress, ht = high temperatures during flowering/pod fill,bgmL = botrytis grey mould (low), bgmM = botrytis grey mould (moderate), bgmS = botrytis grey mould (severe), ab = ascochyta blight (low), w = weed competition, wl =temporary waterlogging, phwd = preharvest weather damage, pe = poor establishment* Varieties have only had limited evaluation at these sites, treat results with cautionData source: SARDI/GRDC, PBA & NVT (long term data based on weighted analysis of sites)NO VALID RESULT - HIGH VARAIBILITY IN TRIALNO VALID RESULT - HIGH VARAIBILITY IN TRIALNO VALID RESULT - HIGH VARAIBILITY IN TRIALNO VALID RESULT - HIGH VARAIBILITY IN TRIALPBA Bounty yielded similarly to Nuggetin 2010 across all sites except Rivertonwhere it was lower yielding by 15 percent.In long term trials in SA PBA Bounty hasout yielded Nugget by 3 percent acrosssites.PBA Bounty is a broadly adapted smallseeded red lentil with higher yields thanNipper and Northfield. PBA Bounty doesnot have the equivalent level of foliardisease resistance of Nipper but averagesapproximately 8% higher yields longterm in SA than this variety.Nipper did not have the previouslyseen high yield increases over othervarieties at disease infected sites in 2010,and was lower yielding than Nugget atWillamulka, Laura and Riverton.In 2010 NVT sites had strategicapplications of fungicide to minimise theimpact of disease. Fungicide applicationswould have benefited varieties with lowerlevels of disease resistance relative toNipper. Nipper was the highest yieldingvariety at the Melton PBA site (106%of site average) where no fungicide wasapplied.Boomer had a mixed performance in2010. It was significantly lower yieldingthan the site averages at Maitland (8%)and Turretfield (10%) where it producedvery high levels of biomass but was thehighest yielding variety (11%) at Laura,which was characterised by lower biomasslevels.The PBA lentil breeding team isworking with BASF and Pulse Australiato obtain an imidazolinone productregistration for use on CIPAL702 (namepending). Commercial seed quantities ofCIPAL0702 have been produced throughPB seeds and will be made available tofarmers when progress toward herbicideregistration is confirmed. CIPAL0702is a small seeded red lentil with goodresistance to foliar and seed AB. It is alsomoderately resistant to BGM. CIPAL702is later flowering than Nugget and bestsuited to more favorable areas. In 2010CIPAL702 was generally ten percentlower yielding than Nugget across sites.More information:Matt Dare (08) 8842 6264,matt.dare@sa.gov.au2 0 1 1 SARDI Crop Harvest Report < 29