New Barley Cultivars with Improved Morphological Characteristics for Whole Crop Forage in Korea
2008
Park, T.I. (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA, Iksan, Republic of Korea), E-mail: parktl@rda.go.kr | Han, O.K. (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA, Iksan, Republic of Korea) | Seo, J.H. (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA, Iksan, Republic of Korea) | Choi, J.S. (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA, Iksan, Republic of Korea) | Park, K.H. (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA, Iksan, Republic of Korea) | Kim, J.G. (Honam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, RDA, Iksan, Republic of Korea)
In Korea, domestic consumption of barley as a cereal crop has been decreasing since the 1980s. It has been considered that winter-season crop production could enhance the global competitiveness of domestic livestock industry by providing better quality fodder to livestock and enhancing field use rate. Therefore, the purpose of barley cultivation for cereal food production has been recently replaced by the production of forage barley. Consequently, the area of barley cultivation for forage is markedly increasing in Korea. Forage barley is cultivars especially as forage for cattle. While any type of barley can be used as forage for feeding cattle, forage barleys deliver a higher dry matter yield than conventional feed barley. We have developed forage barley cultivars with cattle's favorite characters such as smooth awn, hood and auricleless types. Cultivar Wooho, Yuyeon, and Dami have smooth awn, hood type spike, and auricleless type plant. We also developed rough awn type barley cultivars, such as Yongyang, Sunwoo, Sangweon, and Soman, showing early-maturing and high-yielding. They showed about 12 to 10 ton ha-¹ in dry matter yield (average 33 ton ha-¹ in fresh matter yield). And these were evaluated by forage quality which showed a higher grade of silage quality (TDN, ADF, NDF, CP, etc.) for whole crop barley use. Based on these results, it indicated that barley with smooth awn, hooded, and auricleless could be suitable sources in breeding for whole crop forage use.
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