Breeding of New Millet Variety Baogu 19 with Lodging-resist and High Quality and High Yield

Baogu 19 is a new millet hybrid with Jigu 19 as the female parent and Ji 9050 as male parent. It was selected according to the breeding objective of high quality, lodging-resist, high yield, multi-resist and eurytopicity by the methods of selection, observation, identification, field test, production test and other steps. The average yield was 4 983. 0 kg / hm2 in the group of summer millet of north China areas of national variety regional test in 2010-2011,and the yield increasing was 6. 04% compared with control Jigu 19. In 2012 the yield and its increasing was 4 813. 5 kg / hm2 and 3. 76%,respectively. Baogu 19 with characters of high and steady yield,high quality,strong resistance to drought,waterlogging and lodging. The resistance to millet rust,millet blast and sheath blight were level 2,3 and 3,respectively. The incidence of diseases for poliosis,red leaf and nematode were 1. 97%,1. 62%,0. 25%,respectively. The infestation rate was 1. 41%. It is suitable to plant in north China as summer sowing,in east and west Hebei areas,and south-central area of Liaoning as spring sowing.It was selected as first level millet in the 9th National High Quality Edible Millet Selection in February 2012. It past the identification of National Millet Variety Identification Committee on August 2013( ID No: Guojiangu2013003).