Response of Grain Yield and Protein Content of Wheat Varieties to Different Levels of Fertilizers

Abstract

The grain yield and protein content of winter and spring wheat are significantly influenced by the technological factors, by variety, meteorological conditions and interaction between them. The field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of fertilization on grain yield and quality indices in winter and spring wheat and to compare of their values. The quality of the grain was determined based on meal analysis. Nitrogen application improved protein content and also increase the grain yield until level when is appear the negative correlation between two characters. The experimental date from this paper is about adaptability of 25 winter wheat and 22 spring wheat varieties local and foreign in two years and two level of fertilization on the local conditions at Turda. The experiments were conducted over two years, 2011 and 2012, at Agricultural Research and Development Station Turda, which are characterized with a high rainfall and temperatures favourable for winter wheat and spring wheat crops. The trials were conducted under quadratic lattice design with repeated the basic scheme. Each of both basic scheme consisting of 3 replications permitted to create two levels of fertilization. So, including the years as factors was possible to consider our experiment as an three factorial one (years- cultivars- fertilization). The effect of fertilization is reflected on increase grain yield and qualitative of these. By analysis of variance could be highlighted the influences of year, level of fertilization and cultivars, and also the interactions between these.