Genetic characterization of barley varieties under saline sodic soil

The field experiment was conducted at Genetics and Plant Breeding Research Farm Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology Faizabad in Simple Lattice Design with 2 replications during Rabi 2010-11 to assess 64 released varieties of barley showing wide spectrum of variation for various characters. The characters studied were Yield and yield contributing traits; namely plant height days to maturity fertile tillers per plant length of main spike grains per main spike 1000-grains weight grain yield per plant and Morphological traits; namely growth habit morphology of leaf presence of anthocyanin pigmentation spikelet arrangement awned/awnless tip sterility seed colour seed shape waxiness on leaf. The data on 7 characters was utilized for estimation of mean range and least significant differences correlations path-coefficients and genetic divergence The varieties RD-2552 HBL-276 RD-2592 PL-419 Kedar PL-751 JB-58 K-508 produced higher grain yield per plant and showed high to very high mean performance for several other yield component also.