The improvement of yield stability largely depends on responsiveness to favorable growing conditions and resistance to stress factors. The promising varieties should have stable yields, resistance to unfavorable environmental conditions, such as winter resistance and drought tolerance. In this regard, a purposeful breeding for adaptability, i.e. resistance to stress factors is of great importance. The purpose of the research was to study the adaptability and stability of winter barley varieties. The estimation was carried out on the experimental field of the FSBSI ARC “Donskoy”, which is located in the southern zone of the Rostov region. Through three years, 28 winter barley varieties of domestic and foreign breeding were studied. The location of the plots is systematic in double sequence; the area is 10 m². The calculation of ecological plasticity was carried out according to the method of S. A. Eberchart, W. A. Rassel (1966) (ed. by V. A. Zykin (2005)) using the statistical data processing program Statistica 10. It has been established that the most responsive varieties (bi > 1) to the improvement of growing conditions were ‘Erema’ (bi = 1.60), ‘Foks 1’ (bi = 1.64), ‘Skala’ (bi = 1.61), ‘Explorer 8’ (bi = 1.81) and ‘Capten’ (bi = 2.02). These varieties due to a high level of agricultural technology provide maximum yields. At an extensive background it is better to use the varieties ‘KWS-2-117’ (bi = 0.28), ‘KWS – 2–234’ (bi = 0.48). The most stable varieties of the studied foreign ones were the varieties ‘Wintwalt’ and ‘Explorer 4’ (σ²d = 0.04). Through the years of study, the variety ‘Marusya’ (RF) had the highest yield with a linear regression coefficient bi = 0.54, which indicates great stability of this variety.

There has been estimated the ecological adaptability and stability of winter barley varieties in the conditions of the Rostov region. There were studied 4 varieties and 6 lines of winter barley developed in the FSBSI “Agricultural Research Center “Donskoy”. The estimation was conducted according to the S.A. Eberchart, W.A. Rassel method (1966, ed. by V.A. Zykin), using a statistical processing software Statistica 10 and Excel. During the years of study (2017-2019), the environmental conditions varied significantly, which allowed reliably estimating the environmental adaptability and stability of the studied varieties and lines. The analysis of adaptability and stability resulted in identification of such responsive varieties as ‘Marusya’ and ‘Yerema’, as well as the line ‘Parallelum 1976’ with linear regression coefficients more than 1. The varieties ‘Marusya’ and ‘Yerema’ were the best ones among the studied varieties and lines, showing high and stable productivity over the years of study. According to the study results the variety ‘Vivat’ showed a sufficiently high level of adaptability. The variety ‘Timofey’ and the lines ‘Parallelum 1979’, ‘Parallelum 1981’, ‘Pallidum 1972’ showed a sufficiently high level of stability.

In recent years, the spring-summer period of the Rostov region is characterized with a lack of moisture supply in the initial period of plant growing and formation of generative organs, as well as in the filling period of spring barley grain. The highest productivity under these conditions, according to the study of previous years, has been formed by the middle-early and early-maturing varieties. The breeding work for the development of early-maturing spring barley varieties has been going on for many decades in the FSBSI Agricultural Research Center “Donskoy”. The purpose of the current study was to develop a new highly productive early-maturing spring barley variety, adapted to the arid soil and climatic conditions of the south of Russia. The current paper has presented characteristics of the new early-maturing spring barley variety ‘Fedos’, adapted to the soil and climatic conditions of the arid Russian regions and resistant to negative environmental stress factors. The new variety was characterized by high yields (+0.4 t/ha to the standard one), large kernel (1000 kernel weight was more than 47 g), fairly high protein percentage in grain (+1.3% to the standard one). In comparison with the standard variety, the new variety has formed higher yields due to the increased number of productive stems per 1 m2 (on 12 pcs. more) and kernel weight per head (+0.2 g). In addition, the variety ‘Fedos’ produced large, well-filled kernel even in severely arid years (+5.6 g to the standard one). The new variety is more resistant to major leaf diseases than the standard one.

Яровой ячмень имеет большое значение как ценная зернофуражная культура, его зерно также используется для производства различных видов круп, которые по своим пищевым достоинствам не уступают рисовой и гречневой. В настоящее время селекция ярового ячменя направлена на выведение адаптивных сортов, способных формировать стабильную урожайность даже в условиях усиления засушливости климата. Для изучения данного вопроса проводили оценку экологической пластичности и стабильности сортов ярового ячменя в условиях южной зоны Ростовской области. Исследования проводили в ФГБНУ «Аграрный научный центр «Донской» в 2016-2018 гг. В изучении находилось 10 сортов ярового ячменя различного географического происхождения, в том числе: РФ-6, Украина-2 и Германия-2, высеянных в двукратной повторности. Учетная площадь делянки-10 м 2. В качестве стандарта использовали сорт Ратник. В исследовании применяли методику

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