Burley Variety Update

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Burley Variety Update
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Burley Tobacco Variety TrialAcross 5 Locations
3 Grades
Locations Bath, Elliot, Henry, Lincoln,
Spencer Counties
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Percentage of Tobacco Stripped into Each Grade
from 5 Locations
Locations Bath, Elliot, Henry, Lincoln,
Spencer Counties
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Burley Tobacco Variety TrialAcross 5 Locations
4 Grades
Locations Menifee, Taylor, Trimble(2) Wayne
Counties
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Percentage of Tobacco Stripped into Each Grade
from 5 Locations
Locations Menifee, Taylor, Trimble(2) Wayne
Counties
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Yield Ranking of Varieties for Each of 11 Trials
Locations Bath, Elliot, Henry (2), Lincoln,
Menifee, Spencer, Taylor, Trimble (2) Wayne
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Yield of Burley Tobacco Varieties with Different
Fertility
Nitrogen was applied in the ammonium nitrate form
.
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KT 204

• Advantages
• Resistance
• Good Black Shank Resistance
• Black Root Rot
• Virus Complex
• Blue mold tolerance
• Yield (3400)
• Comparison to KT 200
• Not as late
• Not as dark green in field (Curing)
• Stalk size smaller
• Disadvantages
• Slow growth early
• Drought Tolerance?
• Black Shank resistance under stress?

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NC 6

• Advantages
• High Yield (3400)
• Good disease package
• High resistance to Race 0 Black Shank
• Black Root Rot
• Virus Complex
• Southern root knot nematode
• Disadvantages
• Low resistance to Race 1 Black Shank
• No Fusarium Wilt resistance
• Other
• Dark green color in field

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NC 7

• Advantages
• Resistance
• Black shank
• Race 0 High
• Race 1 Moderate to Low
• Black root rot
• Fusarium wilt
• Tobacco mosaic virus
• Wildfire
• Unique resistance
• Root knot nematode
• Tobacco cyst nematode
• Disadvantages
• Not know

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NC 2002

• Advantages
• Blue mold resistant
• Better yield than NC 2000
• Well suited to areas with consistent blue mold
  incidence
• Disadvantages
• Poor disease package

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HB04P hybrid

• Developed in Brazil
• By Profigen do Brazil
• Advantages
• High yield (3400)
• Drought tolerant
• High leaf quality
• High resistance to Black root rot
• Resistance to tobacco mosaic virus
• Disadvantages
• No resistance to Black Shank