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EVALUATION OF CHINESE WHEAT LINES IN COMPARISON WITH LOCAL CHECK UNDER SEMI-ARID CONDITION OF PESHAWAR VALLEY

. Muhammad Ibrar, Bismillah Khan, Muhammad Mehran Anjum, Basit Ullah, Maaz Ullah, Saeed ullah, Aftab Ahmad and Izharullah.


Abstract

Cultivar with optimum yield potential is of great importance nowadays due to rapid increase in the world population. Due to continuous shrinkage in cultivable land as a result of urbanization and over population, vertical increase in crop yield is the only possible solution to the currently rising food security issue. This field experiment was conducted to identify better performing hybrid wheat lines at the Agronomy Research Farm, The University of Agriculture Peshawar during Rabi season 2020-21. Nine Chinese hybrid wheat lines (20BH001, 20BH002, 20BH003, 20BH004, 20BH005, 20BH006, 20BH007, 20BH008, 20BH009) in comparison with local check (Khaista-2017) were evaluated in randomized complete block design with three replications. Results exhibited that wheat lines 20BH001 and 20BH002 performed well for most of the yield related traits such as tillers m-2 (252, 234), grains spike-1 (58, 60), 1000-grain weight (56.3, 53.5 g), biological yield (5370 kg ha-1) and grain yield (2770, 2478 kg ha-1), respectively and are thus found suitable for growing in the valley of Peshawar.

Index Terms- Wheat hybrids; Chinese; Phenology and Yield and yield components

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