relation: https://orgprints.org/id/eprint/8136/
title: Genetic potential for grain yield in spring barley varieties and variety mixtures in variable organic environments
creator: Østergård, Hanne
creator: Kristensen, Kristian
creator: Hovmøller, Mogens
creator: Willas, Jakob
subject: Crop health, quality, protection
subject:  Regulation
subject:  Crop combinations and interactions
subject:  Weed management
subject:  Breeding, genetics and propagation
subject:  Biodiversity and ecosystem services
description: For organic crop production, well-characterised varieties increase the possibilities for controlling diseases and weeds and compensating for deficits in nutrients. Variation in grain yield was studied in about 150 spring barley varieties and variety mixtures and 20 combinations of location, growing system and year. Choice of variety was found to be as important a factor for grain yield as other factors in the management. Some variety mixtures out yielded even the best variety in the mixture, when this was grown in pure stand. Finally, a concept for organic variety testing of spring barley was developed. This Danish project is part of a European COST Network on sustainable low-input cereal production (SUSVAR) which coordinates studies in different countries on variety mixtures, composite crosses and variety testing.
date: 2006
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: /id/eprint/8136/1/Hanne_Oestergaard_spring_barley_varieties.pdf
identifier:    Østergård, Hanne; Kristensen, Kristian; Hovmøller, Mogens and Willas, Jakob    (2006) Genetic potential for grain yield in spring barley varieties and variety mixtures in variable organic environments.       Paper at:   Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.