Preliminary results of testing blue lupin (Lupinus atiqustifolius L) in Serbia

Abstract

Contemporary breeding programs on blue lupin, such as the one that is carried out in the Saatzucht Steinach QmbH in Bornhof, Germany, are aimed at the improvement of tolerance to abiotic and biotic stress and certain morphological and physiological changes. Although blue lupin is almost completely unknown in Serbia a recently launched breeding programme on white and blue lupins in the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad provided encouraging results on the introduction of these two species in the country. A small-plot trial was carried out on a pseudogley soil at the Experiment Field of the Dr. Đorđe Radić Secondary School of Agriculture in Kraljevo. In comparison with all other cultivars, the cultivar Bolivio produced a significantly higher grain yield (3005 kg ha-1) at the both levels of 0.05 and 0.01, while the lowest grain yield was in the cultivar Boruta (1425 kg ha-1).