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the Symposium on Wheats for More Tropical Environments - cimmyt

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28accuracy. However. it can be c<strong>on</strong>cludedthat yield is not severely llmited bylatitude or climatic c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s. Withmore data. <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> correlati<strong>on</strong> coefficientcan be expected to be even closer tozero; some of <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> stati<strong>on</strong>s close to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>equator were <strong>on</strong>ly in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir sec<strong>on</strong>d orthird year of growing wheat. and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>iryields can be expected to rise withmore experience in crop management.Thus. a str<strong>on</strong>g plea is made here <strong>for</strong>adaptive research in every tropical areawhere wheat is c<strong>on</strong>sidered a potentialcrop. To fur<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r illustrate this need. <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>yield of some well-known varieties canbe compared between tropical andtraditi<strong>on</strong>al areas (Table 4). The varietiesUres. Pav<strong>on</strong> and Nacozari are wellabove average in traditi<strong>on</strong>al wheatlocati<strong>on</strong>s. such as Ciudad Obreg<strong>on</strong>.Mexico. and Faisalabad. Pakistan; <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>yare below or <strong>on</strong>ly sUghtly above averagein tropical areas. UP262 per<strong>for</strong>ms in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>opposite manner. and S<strong>on</strong>al1ka. andQuimori are erratic in per<strong>for</strong>mance.Earliness is ano<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r unpredictablecharacter as varieties are moved to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>tropics. While Pav<strong>on</strong> is five days later inflowering than Nacozari at CiudadObreg<strong>on</strong>. <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y are equal in maturity atFaisalabad; Pav<strong>on</strong> is 27 days later thanNacozari at Chiang Mai. Thailand. andnine and eight days later at VillaGuede. Senegal. and Campinas. Brazil.respectively. UP262 is even earlier in<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> tropics than in traditi<strong>on</strong>al areas. aTable 2. Locati<strong>on</strong> of experiment stati<strong>on</strong>s replying to request <strong>for</strong> meteorologicaldete.1984Country Elevati<strong>on</strong> Latitude Country Elevati<strong>on</strong> Latitudeand stati<strong>on</strong> (m) (ON or8) and stati<strong>on</strong> (m) ~N or8)ArgentinaInd<strong>on</strong>esiaLa Dulce 72 38 Kuningan 545 7Brazil Mojosari 30 8Brasilia 1000 16 Margahayu 1250 7L<strong>on</strong>drina 566 23 Sukarami 928 1BurmaPhil ippinesYezin 97 20 Los Baftos 22 14Lashio 23 SudanTau nggy i 1439 21 Wad Medani 411 14Sagaing Chiang Mai 314 19M<strong>on</strong>ywa702222ThailandMandalay 74 22 USABangladesh Yuma. Ariz<strong>on</strong>a 100 33Joydebpur 8 24 Woodland. Cali<strong>for</strong>nia 21 39Jessore 8 23 Yemen, PDRIshurdi 7 24 Seiyun 700 16ChinaZambiaNanjing 12 32 Chilanga 1213 16Costa RicaZimbabweSan Josecito 840 10 Harare 1496 18India Chiredzi 429 21Indore 557 22

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