摘要
The novel salt-tolerant cereal, primary Tritipyrnm, is the third artificially synthesized crop plant. The agronomic traits and grain yields of 13 primary 6x Tritipyrum lines were evaluated and compared with five modern 6x triticale lines and nine bread wheat cultivars at Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran in a completely randomized block design with three replications. The primary Tritipyrum lines increased the grain yield per plant by 2.8% and 14.1% compared to triticale promising lines and Iranian bread wheat cultivars, respectively. Although the primary Tritipyrum lines were late maturing, they were shorter than the triticale lines and wheat cultivars and superior in many characters such as penultimate leaf area, flag leaf length, penultimate leaf length and time to milky ripeness. Genotypes were divided into four groups for agronomic and morphological traits and four groups for grain yield by cluster analyses. All clusters showed significant differences （a = 5%） for all traits and the first cluster, which comprised primary Tritipyrum lines, had a higher mean grain yield than the other clusters. The results of this first large-scale trial indicated the high adaptation of primary Tritipyrum lines to conditions in Kerman province in South-east of Iran.
