Effect of sowing time on yield contributing characters among local and European genotypes of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

The present study was conducted using six local and eight European barley genotypes to assess their performance, variability and the influence of sowing time on yield and yield contributing characters. Seeds were sown at three times viz. 1^st November, 21^st November and 11^th December 2015. Among the studied genotype BB-5 showed earlier booting (59.0 days) and long duration (82.0 days) was recorded in Hor-17016. It was observed that BB-5 required minimum duration to mature (101 days) while maximum duration (129 days) was recorded in Hor-9580. Among the genotypes Hor-9465 was the best for plant height (117.0 cm), total tillers (49.63), fertile tillers (37.43), spike length (14.33 cm), spikelets per spike (15.67), grains per spike (89.0) and grain yield (7.75 g) per plant. For 1000 grain weight BB-1 was better (34.10 g) than others.