BREEDING VALUE OF SHALLOT CULTIVARS AND LOCAL FORMS IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC CHARACTERS FOR THE RIGHT-BANK FOREST-STEPPE OF UKRAINE

Purpose. To indentify the best shallot cultivars and local forms by growing period length, bulb yield, leaf productivity, weight number per clump in Right-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine. Methods. Statistical processing, field assessments, computational analytical methods. Results. Collection accessions were evaluated for lengthand, weight, performance. Earlyripening accession ‘Sh-8’ with a vegetation 74 days was selected. Local form ‘Sh-1’ from Kyivska Oblast region turned out to be terms mean (26.7 g). Accessions (‘Sh-1’, ‘Sh-2’), Dnipropetrovska (‘Sh-6’, ‘Sh-9’), Chernihivska (‘Sh-10’) Oblasts yielded most (30.5, 25.4, 18.9, 18.1, 19.4 t/ha, respectively). The check cultivar, ‘Lira’, 15.5 t/ha. smallest yields harvested following accessions: ‘Sh-4’ (12.2 t/ha), ‘Sh-7’ (12.0 ‘Sh-11’ (11.9 ‘Sh-12’ (13.8 t/ha ha), ‘Sh-13 (13.2 ‘Sh-14’ (13.0 t/ha). Two accessions, which came (‘Sh-3)’ (‘Sh-6’) found adapted environmental conditions Their Lewis’s phenotypic stability factors close 1. A Oblast, ‘Sh 9’ worst as its factor high 1.2. maximum length recorded ‘Sh-2’; 38.0 35.8 cm, respectively) (‘Sh-10’; 36.2 cm) Oblasts. Conclusions. Due this study, short periods, great weights numbers bulbs yield selected sample originating showed results g) (30.5 However, it late-ripening (86 days), only formed on average 4 clump. 38 cm was. ‘Sh-8’, early-ripening (74 days).