Quality Characteristics of Grains of Some Lentil Varieties

An experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2017–18 at oilseed research farm, Kalyanpur, CSA University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur to study the grain quality characteristics of some varieties of lentil. Results revealed that the grain yield in different varieties of lentil ranged from 16-21q/ha. Significantly highest grain yield of 21q/ha was found in lentil variety KLS-320. The test weight of lentil varieties showed variation from 19.43–30.10g/1000 grain. The variety KLB-97-8 was identified to have the highest test weight. The dhal protein content varied significantly from 21.02–24.99 percent and tryptophan content varied from 0.49–0.82mg/16g N in different varieties of lentil. Significantly highest protein content of 24.99 per-cent and tryptophan content 0.82mg/16g N in dhal was obtained in lentil variety K-75. The dhal recovery from whole grains in different varieties of lentil ranged from 84.43–88.93 per-cent and lentil variety KLB-97-8 recorded maximum dhal recovery of 88.93 per-cent followed by KLB-2003-2, KLB-345, 314-B, KLS-218, KLS-320, K-75, KLS-09-3, KLB-7/11 and KLB-08-4. Different varieties of lentil showed variation in husk recovery from 7.23–9.85 per-cent. The variety KLB-978 gave lowest mean value of husk than the other varieties of lentil. Broken dhal recovery ranged from 1.43–3.94 per-cent and highest percentage was obtained in case of KLS-09-3, whereas, variety KLB-345 recorded least value for broken dhal per-cent. The lowest per-cent loss in processing was obtained in KLS-218 (0.69%) whereas highest percent loss in processing was recorded in lentil variety KLB-7/11 (2.35%).