ВЛИЯНИЕ ПОГОДНЫХ УСЛОВИЙ ВЕГЕТАЦИОННОГО ПЕРИОДА НА ПРОДУКТИВНОСТЬ ЗЕРНОВОГО СОРГО

Abstract

Global warming is currently having a measurable effect on Earth, so the process is bringing about significant changes in weather conditions during the vegetation period of the main field crops. This is true for the arid steppe conditions of the Donbass territory. The authors conducted a field experiment to evaluate climatic factors' effect on the productivity of various early maturing grain sorghum hybrids on ordinary chernozem in Luhansk National Agrarian university's experimental field 2015–2019. The study obtained the strongest direct correlation between the yield of hybrids and the amount of precipitation for April – September (r = 0,84–0,99) or only correlated with precipitation for August (r = 0,75–0,98). A moderate and high correlation was found between the yield of hybrids and the hydrothermal coefficient (HTC) for April – September (r = 0,53–0,89) and a high correlation with the HTC for August (r = 0,67–0,99). The average monthly air temperature in summer did not show a significant correlation with the sorghum yield. The crop yield had an average (r = 0,52–0,66) and strong (r = 0,90) direct correlation with the mass of 1000 grains, a strong correlation (r = 0,92) with the height of plants, and a strong correlation (r = 0,76–0,99) with the duration of the vegetational season of sorghum. The early-maturing hybrid Yankee and the medium-early maturing hybrid Puma Star showed the closest correlation between the sorghum crop and the amount of precipitation for August (r = 0,91–0,98) and the Selyaninov HTC for August (r = 0,87–0,99). In 2015–2019, the Puma Star hybrid demonstrated the highest grain yield, significantly higher than other hybrids (56,5–77,6 C/ha), due to the higher grain weight obtained from the panicle (42,5–49,8 g) and the weight of 1000 grains (21,8–28,2 g). The Puma Star hybrid showed an extreme dependence of the yield on the mass of 1000 grains (r = 0,96 ± 0,01).