10 Aug BH959: New feed barley variety released for central zone
बी.एच 959: केंद्रीय क्षेत्र के लिए नई चारा जौ की नई किस्म BH 959 ( BH 393/ BH 331) is a new feed barley variety, which was developed using pedigree method at CCSHAU, Hisar. The variety was identified for irrigated timely sown conditions of Central Zone (CZ) during 53rd All India Coordinated Wheat and Barley Worker’s Meet held at JNKVV, Jabalpur during 22-25 Aug.2014. Recently the variety BH959 has been also released and notified by Central Sub-Committee on Crop Standards, Notification and Release of Varieties for Agricultural Crops (CVRC) vide S.O. 1228 (E) dated 7th May 2015. BH959 depicted average grain yield as 4990 Kg/ha (mean of 10 trials over 3 years) with grain yield superiority of 12.71 and 9.63 per cents over check varieties, PL751 and RD2786, respectively. BH959 is erect type in growth habit with mean heading and maturity of about 63 and 109 days, respectively. Average plant height of the variety is 71 cm. Spikes are parallel, dense and six-rowed type. Awns are long and yellow in colour at maturity. Grains are elongated, semi hard texture and yellow in colour with 46 g 1000 grain weight. The salient features of BH959 aregiven in Table Table: Morphological, quantitative and grain quality characteristics of BH959 Characters BH959 Morphological Row type six-rowed Husk/ huskless hulled Growth habit erect Coleoptiles pigmented Auricles non-pigmented Leaf width medium Peduncle medium-waxy Flag leaf medium-waxy Leaf sheath waxy (strongly) Grain size medium bold Grain shape elongated Grain texture semi hard Grain...