ArticleDrought is a significant factor limiting crop production in arid conditions. In the dry
climatic weather situation of
southern Russia, ten
-
year laboratory trials and subsequent field
experiments were laid out on various barley varieties collected across the globe during 2007
–
2017 period. This study was conducted to ascertain from the collection of barley cultivars of the
entire world which one is best suited to stressful climatic conditions by being tolerant to drought,
heat and salinity which can be adopted for barley breeding. According to the results obtained, the
varieties that are tolerant to dry climatic conditions
are as follows: Alga (Lithuania), Brenda,
Henni (Germany), Décor (Great Britain),
Furat
5 (Syria), Vakula (Ukraine), Ataman (Belarus)
and Vladimir (Russia); heat resistant varieties are: Brenda (Germany), Alga (Lithuania),
Furat
5
(Syria), Ataman (Belarus)
, Vladimir and Ratnik (Russia); Salt
-
resistant varieties: Alga
(Lithuania), Henni (Germany) and Vladimir (Russia). The selected varieties did not show any
sign of adverse weather effect resulting in stable grain productivity throughout the entire duration
of this research over the years, they had large grain size and stable 1
,
000 grains weight. However,
the yield of selected cultivars varied over the years which was about 1.1
–
1.4
t
ha
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