TY  - PRO
AU  - Bedada Girma
AU  - Balcha Yai
AU  - Zewdie Alemayehu
AU  - Payne,T.S.
AU  - Amsal Tesfaye Tarekegne
ED  - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
TI  - Evaluation of introduced bread wheat germplasm under Ethiopian conditions
SN  - 92-9146-058-3
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
PB  - CIMMYT
KW  - Breeding methods
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Disease resistance
KW  - Ethiopia
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Germplasm
KW  - Plant diseases
KW  - Resistance to injurious factors
KW  - Triticum
KW  - Genotypes
KW  - Plant breeding
KW  - CIMMYT
N2  - Bread wheat breeding objectives in Ethiopia include high yield, disease resistance, tolerance to stress environments, resistance to lodging and shattering, and grain quality. The major sources of germplasm introductions are CIMMYT/Mexico and CIMMYT/ICARDA/Syria. In 1997, six nurseries consisting of nearly 700 entries were introduced and evaluated under quarantine at Hotel Research Center, a hot- spot for Septoria tritici. Resistance/tolerance to septoria leaf blotch, yield potential and agronomic appeal were the major factors in screening the materials for high rainfall areas. Septoria, however, is not a major factor in evaluating genotypes in semi-arid nurseries. After field evaluation and scoring, seed selection was used to scrutinize and advance promising materials. Based on different criteria used in screening, about 31% of the introductions were promoted to the next testing stages under different environments
ER  -