All India Coordinated Wheat Improvement Project, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
Online published on 25 January, 2012.
To identify superior wheat genetic stocks for various quality, agronomic value and disease resistance properties, cooperative evaluation programme at 15 to 18 main wheat breeding stations in India was started in 1965 and continued ever since. So far, under this programme, more than two thousand wheat varieties, both indigenous and foreign, have been evaluated. Data collected on these nurseries and the genetic stocks of proven value are summarised and presented here for use by wheat breeders.
The most promising varieties in respect of resistance to two to three wheat rusts and for protein content and pelshenke value and some of the other traits of agronomic utility were: E. 4995, E 5070, E 6006, E 6012, E 6160, E 6824, E 8643, E 8667, E 8668, E 8678, E 8682, E 8684, CPAN 28, CPAN 482, CPAN 722, HB 99–69, HB 100-61, HB 100-62, HB 117–106, HB 117–107, HB 187 and Sonalika.
For high 1000 grain weight and high pelshenke values NP 890, K 65, K 68 were found to be very promising.
