PRESLAV VARIETY – NEW ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BULGARIAN FODDER
BEET BREEDING
Ilia Uchkunov, Kulka Uchkunova, Georgi Kikindonov, Tzvetan Kikindonov
Agricultural Institute, Blvd. Simeon Veliki 3, 9700 Shumen, R. Bulgaria
uchkunov@abv.bg
The aim of the publication is to acknowledge the scientific community and the agrarian business with the mor¬phological and productive qualities of the new fodder beet variety Preslav. It is preliminary tested in the experimental fields of the Agricultural Institute – Shumen (2000–2003) in non-irrigation conditions on carbonic black soil. It is compared with the group standard of the semi-sugar beet hybrid Pliska and the fodder beet variety Tamara (Germany) in the three years trials of IASAS and certified in 2008. During the period of testing the mean exceeding over the group standard of the dry matter yield of Preslav is 9.2%. Characteristic for the root is the fading tail part of the root. The root form is conical. The variety Preslav is a multigerm population and the dry matter content in the roots is 8.6 to 16%.
Keywords: variety; fodder beet; productivity
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