MORPHOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF SOME WHEAT VARIETIES AND ITS CROSSES.

The field experiments were conducted out during 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 seasons at the Experimental Station Farm of Agronomy Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt to evaluate the morphological (quantitative and qualitative) characteristics for identifying 5 genotypes of wheat and their F1 single crosses. The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV, 2012 was used to evaluate the genetic purity of wheat genotypes and their F1 single crosses) technique was used to evaluate the genetic purity of wheat genotypes and their F1 single crosses. The aim of these experiments was to evaluate the morphological (quantitative and qualitative) characteristics for identifying 5 genotypes of wheat and their F1 single crosses. The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants The obtained results showed that the five studied wheat genotypes i.e. P1(Gemmiza 7), P2 (Sakha 93), P3 (Giza 168), P4 (Gemmiza 9) and P5 (Sids 13) were significantly differed in flag leaf length, flag leaf area, plant height, stem diameter and the length of the bare region. Spike length, spike weight, number of spikelets/spike, number of grains/spike, grains weight/spike, 1000– grain weight and biological yield/plant Coleoptile coloration with anthocyanin, plant growth habit, spike color, spike density, awns length at tip of spike, glume beak length, grain coloration with phenol and grain color for the five identified wheat genotypes and their F1 crosses were recorded.the aime the studay significantly