Improvement of groundnut varieties
1997
Rais, S.A. (Balai Penelitian Bioteknologi Tanaman Pangan, Bogor (Indonesia))
The demand of groundnut is increasing due to the development of home industry and population growth. The superior high yielding varieties will able to increase farmers income. In general there are two kinds of groundnut planted namely lowland after rice and dryland. In dryland it can be monoculture or multiple cropping. The main problem for both area are leaf spot and rust diseases, while in dryland, water insufficient and weed as well. The competition of light intensity and nutrient would be happened in multiple cropping system. The field experiment of 10-20 breeding lines had been done in several locations (West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, and Lampung) with randomized block design and 3 replications, since 1986. The experiment resulted that 4 breeding lines was good for lowland after rice, 1 line was good for dryland, 2 varieties and 1 breeding line was good for multiple cropping. During the period of 1983-1993 the institute had been released 15 superior varieties of groundnut
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