PRODUCTIVITY AND BAKING QUALITY OF AUTUMN WHEAT VARIETIES UNDER DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGICAL CONDITIONS ON THE CARACAL CHERNOZEM.

Over a period of three years (2019-2022), 25 varieties of autumn wheat were studied at SCDA Caracal (University of Craiova), in terms of yield and its quality under different technological conditions (fertilization level and sowing time). Several aspects were addressed: the variability of the characters influencing quality and the way the applied technologies influence it; the productivity and baking quality of the tested wheat varieties, depending on the applied technologies; the stability of the studied characters for the tested wheat varieties; the ranking of the values of the studied characters expressed by a score-based ranking. The results showed that yield gain could be obtained by increasing the nitrogen dose and that the quality of the yield was significantly improved by delaying sowing. Increasing the nitrogen dose resulted in higher yields, protein content, wet gluten content, flour power and gluten index, all of which were statistically assured. The most stable character was found to be hectolitre mass, whereas yield was medium stable and the wet gluten content was unstable for all varieties tested. The highest ranked Romanian varieties were Dropia, Glosa and Șimnic 50. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]