THE NEW VARIETY OF GRAIN PEA ‘ALIYANS’

Abstract

The article presents the experimental traits and biologic and technologic characteristics of the new grain pea variety ‘Aliyans’. During the competitive variety testing in the years of 2006-2010, the productivity of the variety varied from 12.8 to 32.5 htw/ha, that is on 2.0-8.5 htw/ha higher than that of the standard variety ‘Aksaysky Usaty5’. ‘Aliyans’ exceeded the content of protein in kernels of the standard variety on 0.3%; it had a 2 days shorter period of vegetation and equal parameters of tolerance to diseases. The combination of high productivity and drought tolerance gave the variety ‘Aliyans’ a great dominance among the standard varieties during the driest 2013 year in the Central-Chernozem, North-Caucasus and Middle-Volzhsky regions of Russia. In the same year the variety ‘Aliyans’ along with the new Don varieties ‘Ataman’ and ‘Kadet’ formed the yield on 1.2-2.2 higher than the yields of other varieties at Shatilov agricultural experimental station. The variety ‘Aliyans’ was introduced in the State Register (List) of breeding achievements, approved to use in2015 inthe 5-th, 6-th and 7-th regions of RF.