SUMMARY

 

This paper reports the results of a comparative analysis of grain and malt characteristics of winter and spring malting barley cultivars developed at the Novi Sad Institute. Presented in the paper arc also biological-production characteristics of Novi Sad cultivars of fodder barley. Good spring malting barley can be grown in regions with moderate temperatures and enough precipitation during the growing season. Winter malting barley cultivars were developed in regions that are less favorable for the production of spring malting barley, since they have better technological performance under adverse growing conditions than spring ones. Because of the global changes in climate and because it gives higher yields, winter malting barley is grown on ever-increasing areas even in regions with a long tradition of spring barley growing.

The Institute's malting barley breeding program has produced a number of winter and spring cultivars that have excellent agronomic and technological characteristics under the Yugoslav environmental conditions. In years that are unfavorable for the growing of spring barley, winter cultivars have better technological characteristics. Under the Yugoslav production conditions, winter and spring cultivars of malting barley should be grown on approximately the same acreage.

Fodder barley cultivars of the Novi Sad Institute are characterized by high and stable yields and good physical characteristics of the grain. Fodder barley yields can be increasecl by slightly increasing the biomass while maintaining the harvest index at the existing level.

 

          Key words: malting barley, fodder barley, agronomic traits, technological characteristics, production conditions.