Table 1.

Ascochyta blight scores on foliage of lentil lines in field trials in South Australia and Victoria from 2005 to 2014.

Site		Melton	Paskeville Trial 1	Paskeville Trial 2	Melton Trial 1	Melton Trial 2	Maitland	Maitland	Minlaton	Willamulka	Mallala	Horsham
Year		2005	2010	2010	2010	2010	2010	2013	2013	2013	2013	2014
Disease scores		1–9a	1–9	1–9	1–9	1–9	1–9	%LADb	%LAD	%LAD	%LAD	Sqrt %LAD
Lentil cultivar	Foliar resistance rating
Aldinga	MR/MSc				3.0	3.2					15.0
Boomer	MR	5.6	2.5	1.7	1.0	1.3	1.0				0.0	1.1 (1.2)d
Cumra	S				5.3
Nipper	R-MR/MSe	1.0	3.8	5.1	3.0	2.7	4.3	6.7	5.0	3.7	13.3	2.2 (4.9)
Northfield	R-MR/MS	1.0	2.5		3.7	1.8					3.3	1.9 (3.5)
Nugget	MR/MS	6.0	4.3	6.1	4.0	4.2	4.3	6.7	8.3	4.0	8.3	2.2 (5.2)
PBA Ace	R						1.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4 (0.1)
PBA Blitz	MR						2.3	1.3	0.7	0.0	3.3	1.2 (1.4)
PBA Bounty	MR/MS		3.5	4.5	3.3	2.8	3.7				10.0	2.1 (4.3)
PBA Flash	MS		6.3	5.4	4.0	3.5	6.7	8.3	11.7	9.3	28.3	3.5 (12.3)
PBA Herald XT	R				1.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0 (1.0)
PBA Hurricane XT	MR							0.2	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.8 (0.4)
PBA Jumbo	MR/MS						1.7	4.0	5.0	0.3	8.3	2.3 (5.0)
Friedman's statistic (P-value)		25.74 (0.001)	25.0 (0.002)	45.2 (0.001)	32.1 (0.001)	36.3 (0.001)	44.0 (0.001)
LSD (P ≤ 0.05)								2.4	2.2	1.3	5.7	0.3

^aFoliar score 1–9; 1, no disease; 3, individual leaf lesions; 5, leaf and stem lesions; 7, leaf, stem and pod lesions; 9, plant death.

^b%Leaf Area Diseased (%LAD).

^cCultivar foliar resistance rating designated by Pulse Breeding Australia; R, resistant; MR, moderately resistant; MR/MS, moderately resistant/moderately susceptible; MS, moderately susceptible; S, susceptible.

^dRaw data in parentheses.

^eCultivars had a different field reaction over several seasons.