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New Varieties of Maize, Potato, Lentil and Chickpea Released

The 39th meeting of National Seed Board of Nepal that met on 6th of Poush, 2065 (Dec. 21, 2008) officially released two varieties each of maize, potato, lentil and chickpea for farmers to cultivate at different agro-ecological regions of the country. All these varieties were developed with complete package of production packages by the respective commodity research programs of NARC after 7-10 years of research and experiments at different research stations and farmers' fields in different parts of Nepal. The released varieties are Manakamana-4 and Poshilo Makai-1 of maize; Khumal Laxmi and IPY-8 of potato; Maheshwor Bharati and Sagun of lentil and Tara and Avrodhi of chickpea. The details characteristics of newly released varieties are depicted in table 1-4.

Table 1. Characteristic of newly released maize varieties

Traits	Variety
Old Name	Population 45C8	S99TLWQ-HG-AB
Parents and pedigree	Amarillo Bajio	Heterotic group A & B
Origin	Mexico, CYMMIT	Mexico, CYMMIT
Days to 50% flowering	73	76
Days to maturity (mid-hills)	145	145-155
Plant height (cm)	221	221
Ear height (cm)	117	111
1000 grain weight (gm)	378	280
Productivity (kg/ha)	6583	5567
Days to 50% tassel emergence	56	61
Days to 50% silk emergence	77	65
Length of cob (cm)	13	13
Grain color	Yellow	White
Number of grain lines/cob	12.47	13.6
Number of grain/cob	353	390
Shelling %	73	69
Protein % (whole grain)	9.44	11.56
Lysine %	-	0.32
Tryptophane %	-	0.20
Recommended domain	Below 1600 meter	Below 1600 meter
Response to stress	Tolerant to drought	Tolerant to drought
Recommended seed rate (kg/ha)	20	20
Recommended Planting distance (cm)	75 x 25	75 x 25
Recommended Plant population	53000	53000

Table 2. Characteristics of newly released potato varieties

Traits	Variety
	Khumal Laxmi	IPY-8
Old Name	CIP 388572.1	CIP 3885272.4
Parents and pedigree	BWH-87.313 x BK (LB)	BWH-87.316xBK (LB)
Days to 50% flowering	90-110	80-90
Days to maturity	Tarai: 100-120, Hill: 120-140	100-120
Plant height (cm)	50-60	40-50
Tuber/plant	10-15	10-12
Productivity (Ton/ha)	24-28	25-27
Tuber shape & size	Round; small-medium	Round; medium
Skin color	Red	White
Skin surface	Smooth	Smooth
Eyebrows	Slightly developed	Slightly developed
Flesh color	Creamy white	Creamy white
Dry matter content (%)	16.7	17.1
Response to stress	Resistance to blight & wart	Blight & wart Resistance
Recommended domain	Terai to high hills	Terai & inner Terai

Table 3. Characteristics of newly released lentil varieties

Traits	Variety
	Maheshwor Bharati	Sagun
Old name	FLIP96-50L	FLIP89-71L
Parents and pedigree	-	ILL 4407 x ILL 4605
Origin	Syria	Syria
Days to 50% flowering	111(86-122)	98 (66-129)
Days to 90% maturity	163 (145-175)	160 (138-175)
Plant height (cm)	31 (10-57)	34 (11-68)
Number of pods /plant	81 (16-151)	80 (17-167)
100 grain weight (gm)	2.1 (1.6-2.5)	1.9 (1.6-2.3)
Seed yield (kg/ha)	1445 (369-2908)	1356 (190-2433)
Straw yield (kg/ha)	2677 (270-7611)	2756 (462-5519)
Seed protein (%)	22.0 � 26.9	25.5 � 26.2
Straw protein (%)	9.0	14.0
Response to stress	wilt rot complex & blight resistance ; tolerant to drought	wilt rot complex & blight resistance ; tolerant to drought
Recommended domain	Mid and low hills	Mid and low hills

Table 4. Characteristics of newly released chickpea varieties

Traits	Variety
	Tara	Avrodhi
Old name	ICCX840508-36	Avrodhi
Parents and pedigree	Dhanus x K 850	-
Origin	Nepal	India
Days to 50% flowering	87	86
Days to maturity	135	135
Plant height (cm)	51	55
Number of pods /plant	51	53
1000 grain weight (gm)	203	190
Seed yield (kg/ha)	1431	1384
Growth habit	Semi spreading	Semi spreading
Flower color	Dark pink	Pale green
Seed size	Medium	Medium
Seed shape	Ram head	Ram head
Seed coat color	Tan	Tan
Protein % (whole seed)	26.7	21.3
Protein % (Splited dal	32.7	26.5
Fat %	5.5	5.4
Total soluble sugar (%)	5.8	5.1
Ash (%)	2.74	2.82
Recommended domain	Tarai to mid-hills	Terai to low-hills
Response to stress	Moderately resistance to wilt complex; can be grown in poor soil & nutrient management	Moderately resistance to wilt complex; can be grown in poor soil & nutrient management

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