Figure 1. The latest Serbian winter dry pea line L-574, registered in November 2010 under the name of the cultivar Mraz (right), in comparison to the widely used Serbian spring-sown dry pea cultivar Jezero (left), photographed on the same day, May 12, 2009.

Table 1. Current list of annual fodder legumes cutivars developed and registered in Serbia (Mihailović and Mikić 2010)

Season, species and cultivation purpose / Name / Year of registration
Winter forage pea / NS-Dunav / 1977
NS-Pionir / 1977
Pionir / 2006
Kosmaj / 2006
Pešter / 2007
Winter dual-purpose pea (forage and dry grain) / Cer / 2006
Spring forage pea / NS-Lim / 1992
Trezor / 2008
Spring dual-purpose pea (forage and dry grain) / NS-Junior / 1992
Jantar / 2009
Spring dry pea / Moravac / 1994
Jezero / 1995
Javor / 2002
Partner / 2007
Kristal / 2007
Dukat / 2007
Winter common vetch (forage) / Novosadska 624 / 1967
NS Sirmium / 1979
Neoplanta / 2005
Tara / 2006
Morava / 2006
Spring common vetch (forage) / Novosadska 5590 / 1967
Beograd / 1970
Novi Beograd / 1997
Perla / 2009
Winter hairy vetch (forage) / Kruševačka 10 / 2007
NS Violeta / 1979
NS-Viloza / 2007
Winter Hungarian vetch (forage) / NS Panonika / 1979
Panonka / 2007
Winter bitter vetch (forage and dry grain) / Perper / 2008
Spring feed faba bean (forage and dry grain) / Gema / 2007
Šarac / 2007
Spring grass pea (forage and dry grain) / Studenica / 2009
Sitnica / 2009
Spring white lupin (forage and dry grain) / Vesna / 2008
Panorama / 2008


Table 2. Average monthly temperature (°С) and absolute minimum monthly temperature at 5 cm above soil surface (°С) in 2004/05 to 2005/06 at Rimski Šančevi, Novi Sad, Serbia

Month
Year / X / XI / XII / I / II / III / IV / V
Average monthly temperature
2004-05 / 14 / 7 / 3 / 0 / -4 / 4 / 12 / 17
2005-06 / 13 / 5 / 3 / -1 / 1 / 6 / 13 / 16
2006-07 / 14 / 7 / 3 / 5 / 6 / 9 / 13 / 19
2007-08 / 11 / 4 / 0 / 2 / 5 / 8 / 13 / 18
2008-09 / 14 / 9 / 4 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 15 / 18
2009-10 / 12 / 9 / 3 / 0 / 2 / 7 / 13 / 17
Long-term average / 12 / 6 / 2 / -1 / 2 / 6 / 11 / 17
Absolute minimum monthly temperature at 5 cm above soil surface
2004-05 / 7 / 2 / -1 / -11 / -24 / -16 / -4 / -4
2005-06 / -4 / -6 / -9 / -16 / -16 / -15 / -2 / 0
2006-07 / -9 / -9 / -10 / -5 / -8 / -6 / -5 / -4
2007-08 / -6 / -10 / -11 / -14 / -7 / -8 / -3 / 0
2008-09 / -2 / -10 / -9 / -14 / -8 / -8 / -3 / 1
2009-10 / -5 / -5 / -24 / -17 / -13 / -8 / -2 / 6

Table 3. Average results of the screening autumn-sown dry pea accessions in Novi Sad during 2004-2006 (Mikić et al. 2007)

Cultivar / Date of beginning of flowering / Date of harvest / Proportion of surviving plants / Grain yield
(kg ha-1)
Champagne / May 9 / June 30 / 0.85 / 3515
Frilène / April 23 / June 14 / 0.23 / 1062
Frijaune / April 23 / June 14 / 0.37 / 1672
Dove / April 22 / June 17 / 0.93 / 6453
5105 / April 16 / June 11 / 0.93 / 3948
5174 / April 19 / June 19 / 0.87 / 6567
Vesela / April 23 / June 15 / 0.24 / 1597
No. 11 / April 24 / June 14 / 0.42 / 1641
Drujba / April 27 / June 23 / 0.57 / 2360
Javor (spring, control) / May 21 / July 1 / - / 5330
LSD0.05 / - / 0.09 / 277
LSD0.01 / - / 0.12 / 369


Table 4. Average values of grain yield components and grain yield in the four different dry pea types at Rimski Šančevi from 2004 to 2007 (Mihailović et al. 2008a)

Type / Plant height (cm) / Number of fertile nodes (plant-1) / Number of pods
(plant-1) / Number of grains
(plant-1) / Thousand grains mass
(g) / Grain yield
(kg ha-1)
Winter, conventional / 107 / 7.2 / 9.8 / 38.2 / 117 / 3348
Winter, semi-leafless / 50 / 3.6 / 6.6 / 26.1 / 206 / 5236
Spring, conventional / 59 / 3.9 / 6.3 / 22.5 / 236 / 5215
Spring, afila leaf type / 61 / 3.6 / 6.0 / 25.7 / 233 / 5252
LSD0.05 / 21 / 2.6 / 2.2 / 8.9 / 37 / 943
LSD0.01 / 30 / 3.6 / 3.0 / 12.3 / 52 / 1304

Table 5. Agronomic characteristics of three winter and one spring cultivar of faba bean in 2004 and 2005 at Rimski Šančevi (Mihailović et al. 2006b)

Accession name / Number of plants
(m-2) / Plant height (cm) / Number of stems (plant-1) / Number of pods (plant-1) / Number of grains (plant-1) / Thousand grains mass
(g) / Grain yield
(kg ha-1)
Göttingen Winter Bean Population / 25 / 78 / 2.5 / 14.9 / 39.8 / 512 / 5527
Diva / 40 / 89 / 1.6 / 11.3 / 35.4 / 384 / 6151
Irena / 28 / 67 / 3.4 / 17.2 / 46.0 / 581 / 5823
Uran (spring, control) / 49 / 92 / 1.2 / 6.8 / 21.5 / 532 / 5857