One hundred and ninety one accessions with superior agronomic characteristics of barley germplasm were evaluated for salt-tolerance and resistance to diseases of yellow mosaic,powdery mildew,barley scab and stripe in 1998 to 1999.The results indicated that among evaluated accessions,the number of the accessions resisting to yellow mosaic,powdery mildew,barley scab and stripe were 60,59,89 and 19 respectively.Salt-tolerance evaluation was undertaken during bud stage and seedling stage.The number of accessions tolerating to salt was 17 in bud stage and 2 in seedling stage.