The Impact of Sowing Technology on Ponderal Features of Winter Wheat Seeds in Timişoara

Abstract

Wheat is a grass, originally from the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. The paper presents the results obtained in the last two years of experience, about the influence of sowing technology on the ponderal features of the winter wheat seeds. The experimental parcels were laid down in a randomized complete block design with three replications in the pedo-climatic conditions of Timişoara. The purpose of the research is to determine the influence of some sowing links on the thousand grain mass and hectoliter mass. The average data obtained after two years of study indicate an increase of about 2 % of the thousand grain mass and hectoliter mass on the second sowing period (16-31 October)and a distinctive decrease of 2-3% on the fourth sowing period(16-30 November). During the two years of experience the row distance and the sowing density had a negative impact on both thousand grain mass and hectoliter mass in both variants compared with the control variant, the difference being statistical significant.

Keywords

• hectoliter mass
• row distance
• sowing density
• sowing period
• thousand grain mass
• winter wheat