Abstract: Barley is one of the major cereal crop growen in highlands of Ethiopia. It is an important food, feed and industrial crop. In this trial a total 36 promising barley genotypes (mainly malt barley types) selected from advanced trails were evaluated using 6*6 simple lattice design at five locations. The objective of the study was to assess the performance of genotypes and genotype by environment interaction (GEI) of barley genotypes; stablity of genotypes and assocation among important yield, yield related and malt quality traits of barley. The combined analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed the existence of significant difference among genotypes and high GEI effect. The mean separation analysis indicated the candidate genotype Entry # 26 (MBHIBYT-22) was the highest yielding genotypes with good malt quality (protein and extract). The association study among agronomic and quality traits showed that hectoliter weight has strong significant genetic association with extract in contrast extract has a strong negative association with grain protein content. This showed hectoliter weight can be used as indirect selection criteria in the selection program. The GGE biplot analysis based on the grain yield performance classified the test environments in to four mega environments.  In addition, the mean vs stability pattern analysis revealed MBHIBYT-22 had good stability and performance that showed this variety can be recommended for production in similar environments with the testing locations.

Keywords: ANOVA, GGE biplot, grain yield, malt quality, stability.

Title: Genotype by environment interaction and association among traits of Barley genotypes evaluated in central and south eastern Ethiopia

Author: Thomas Tsige

ISSN 2394-966X

International Journal of Novel Research in Life Sciences                                                    

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Abstract: The proximate analysis for sprouted and unsproutedproso millet grain was determined by the standard method. All the values are in percentages (%). The moisture content for sprouted and unsprouted was found to be 24.20 and 12.28 respectively, while total Ash was 3.78 and 3.40 for sprouted and unsprouted respectively. Total lipid for sprouted and unsprouted grain was 22.25 and 16.50 respectively. The protein content was 17.27 and 13.89 respectively for sprouted and unsprouted grain. The fibre content was found to be 4.90 and 3.45 for sproutd and unsprouted grain respectively and lastly the carbohydrate content was 32.51 and 53.94 for sprouted and unsprouted respectively.

Keywords: Nutrition, Millet, Proximate, Sprouting, Diet, Obesity.

Title: THE EFFECT OF SPROUTING ON THE PROXIMATE COMPOSITION OF PROSO MILLET

Author: Ambugus Peter O, Dorathy Ekpeyong Eyo, Halima Zubair, Jumoke Kafayat Shittu, Amaya J. Habila, Danlami A. Danzarami

ISSN 2394-966X

International Journal of Novel Research in Life Sciences                                                    

Novelty Journals