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| Researcher(s) |
Eric Armstrong (NSW DPI) Luke Gaynor (NSW DPI) Gerard O'Connor (NSW DPI) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2014 |
| Contributor | Department of Primary Industries NSW |
| Trial location(s) |
Wagga Wagga, ACT
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| Further information | View external link |
This experiment evaluated the two new imidazolinone (IMI) herbicide-tolerant lentil varieties PBA Herald XT and PBA Hurricane XT alongside other commercial varieties and breeding lines for adaptation and production in southern NSW
Randomised complete block design with herbicide as the main blocks and varieties as the sub-plots; three replications
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC DAV00113 |
| Trial funding source | DPI NSW |
| Related program |
Expanding the use of pulses in the Southern region |
| Acknowledgments |
This experiment was part of the project ‘Expanding the use of pulses in the southern region’, DAV00113 2013–16, a collaborative pulse project between state agencies in Victoria, NSW and South Australia, jointly funded by NSW DPI and GRDC. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Grain Legume: Lentils |
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| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow rate or Target density | Target 120 plants/m2 |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Direct-drilled using a six-row cone seeder with 300 mm row spacing, press wheels and GPS auto-steer |
| Sow date | 8 May 2014 |
| Harvest date | Varied - see report |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
80 kg/ha SuPerfect® grain legume fertiliser (NPKS 0:13.8:0:6.1) placed 2 cm below the seed at sowing |
| Insecticide |
Targeting Helicoverpa sp.: |
| Inoculant | Group F peat inoculant was mixed directly into an on-board 200 L water tank then pumped into each sowing furrow through micro-tubes |
| Other trial notes |
This research paper is an extract from the publication Southern NSW Research Results 2015, available at |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
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Grain yield (t/ha) | NDVI (.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ PBA Ace | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 0.47 | 0.19 |
| 2 | █ PBA Jumbo2 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 0.35 | 0.17 |
| 3 | █ PBA Hurricane XT | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.51 | 0.27 |
| 4 | █ PBA Herald XT | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.34 | 0.21 |
| 5 | █ CIPAL422 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.62 | 0.23 |
| 6 | █ CIPAL1421 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.48 | 0.26 |
| 7 | █ CIPAL 1423 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.34 | 0.22 |
| 8 | █ Mean breeding lines | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.32 | 0.24 |
| 9 | █ Breeding 1 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.58 | 0.29 |
| 10 | █ Breeding 2 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.52 | 0.23 |
| 11 | █ Breeding 3 | █ Plus Belta 700 WG | 1.41 | 0.24 |
| 12 | █ PBA Ace | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.7 | 0.31 |
| 13 | █ PBA Jumbo2 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.62 | 0.27 |
| 14 | █ PBA Hurricane XT | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.63 | 0.3 |
| 15 | █ PBA Herald XT | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.14 | 0.24 |
| 16 | █ CIPAL422 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.5 | 0.31 |
| 17 | █ CIPAL1421 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.55 | 0.29 |
| 18 | █ CIPAL 1423 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.54 | 0.25 |
| 19 | █ Mean breeding lines | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.35 | 0.26 |
| 20 | █ Breeding 1 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.61 | 0.29 |
| 21 | █ Breeding 2 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.6 | 0.26 |
| 22 | █ Breeding 3 | █ Minus Belta 700 WG | 1.59 | 0.26 |
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