ACCLIMATIZING INTRODUCED GENOTYPES OF SOYBEAN AT TWO LOCATION IN IRAQ

الملخص

Two experiments were carried out at the Abu-Ghraib Research Station (Baghdad governorate) and the Ishaqi station (Salah AL-Din governorate) of the Agricultural Research Office in 2 June 2010, using RCBD with three replicates for five genotypes of soybean introduced from Vietnam. A local variety (Lee-74) was used for comparison. Analysis of variance for genotypes and for each location was performed individually at level 5% (LSD). The results showed significant differences among all genotypes for all the traits excepting the number of seeds per pod.The yield mean of the genotype Sel-9 superior the others genotypes except local verity Lee 74 has no significant between them (649.3, 609.6 g). Genotype Se-220 gave the lowest mean for this trait (275.4 g). The different cultivation locations effect significantly on plant yield. Ishaqi location was significantly superior to Abu-Ghraib which location giving the highest mean for this trait (599 and 397 g) for the two locations respectively. We conclude that 50% of the genotypes introduced, responded to the environment of Iraq by giving high yield above the grand mean, and that most of the genotypes had early harvest compared to the local variety.