Twenty two inbred lines from the wheat breeding program at the Instituto Agronômico of Campinas, plus the cultivars BH-1146, Alondra-S-46 and Anahuac were evaluated in six field experiments carried out at different locations of the Paranapanema Valley, during the period of 1984-88. Grain yield, plant height, number of days from emergence to flowering, percentage of lodged plants, head length, number of grains per spike and per spikelet, number of spikelets per head, weight of 100 grains, and resistance to stem and leaf rusts, to leaf spots due to Helminthosporium sp. and Septoria sp., and to powdery mildew were evaluated under field conditions. Tests for resistance to stem and leaf rusts and to aluminum tolerance, were performed in greenhouse and laboratory, respectively. The genotypes were also evaluated in trials carried out on acid soil at Capão Bonito and under high soil fertility condition at Tietê. At Paranapanema Valley and Capão Bonito the line 19 (CNT-9 x BH-1146) = IAC-227 showed good grain yield presenting medium cycle and medium plant heigth. At Tietê, jhe lines with a medium cycle from emergence to flowering were the most productive: 1 (Alondra-S-46 x IAC-5) = IAC-225 and 17 (Alondra-1 x IAC-5) = IAC-226, of short plants; and the line 3 (Alondra-S-46 x C-3), of tall plants. The line 21 (IAC-5 x Alondra-S-46) was resistant to: (a) two race mixtures of stem rust; (b) leaf rust, under field condition and two race mixtures of this rust, under greenhouse condition; (c) powdery mildew in adult stage of plants; and (d) leaf spots, showing a relatively low amount of them, under field condition. The lines 6 (C-3 x Sonora-64) and 17 (Alondra-1 x IAC-5) showed to be good genetic sources for long head, the line 17 for large number of spikelets and grains per head, the line 10 (Jupateco x IAC-13) for large number of grains per spikelet and the line 5 (Tobari-66 x BH-1146) for heavy grains. The lines 7, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 19 and the cultivar BH-1146 exhibited tolerance to the presence of 10 mg/liter of Al3+ in the nutrient solution.
wheat; Triticum aestivum L; cultivars; inbred lines; grain yield; plant height; stem and leaf rusts; powdery mildew; leaf spots; aluminum tolerance