Abstract:
Sixty four barley genotypes were tested in 8x8 simple lattice design at Atsbi, Ofla and Quihaenvironments in Tigray region. The objective of the studywas to evaluate the performance of barley germplasmfor yield and its related traits. Analysis of variance revealed that there was a significant difference (p< 0.001)among the sixty four genotypes for all the characters studied except for 1000-kernel weight at Quiha which wassignificant (p<0.05) and plant height was non-significant at Atsbi and Ofla.It was observed that the overallmean for grain yield was the lowest (9.58 qt/ha) at Quiha environment, whereas Ofla seems to be ideal forcultivation of barley as the overall mean grain yield of the location was 36.13 qt/ha which is the highest amongthe three locations
