Growth and development of winter wheat when using growth regulators with retardant properties under conditions of the Non-Chernozem belt

Abstract

High efficiency of using growth regulators is achieved only against the backdrop of balanced plant nutrition and a high level of agricultural technology. The use of growth regulators alone without balanced mineral nutrition of agricultural plants does not give the desired results. Thus, due to lodging of plants we can lose from 10 to 50 % of the cultivated products. As a result, in the country as a whole the shortage of grain can reach up to 15 million tons, which negatively aff ects the production of food and feed grain. The introduction of new progressive technologies using retardants is highly relevant, because will allow us to obtain stable grain yields even under unfavorable weather conditions. The purpose of the research was to identify the effectiveness of using growth regulators with retardant properties of a new generation when growing winter wheat with diff erent seeding rates, as one of the elements of agricultural technology under the conditions of the Central region of the Non-Chernozem belt of the Russian Federation. Under the conditions of the Central region of the Non-Chernozem belt of the Russian Federation the infl uence of growth regulators with retardant properties of a new generation on the productivity of winter wheat variety Nemchinovskaya 17 and the degree of plant lodging was studied in a multifactorial experiment. Features of the growth and development of winter wheat plants of Nemchinovskaya 17 variety, the formation of the main structural indicators and yield under the infl uence of growth stimulants with retardant properties were revealed. It was established as a result of the conducted research that when cultivating winter wheat under the conditions of the Central region of the Non-Chernozem belt of the Russian Federation on sod-podzolic, medium loamy soils, it was recommended to use the growth regulator with retardant properties Raggi at a dose of 1,5 l/ha in the tillering phase – the beginning of booting with a working solution consumption of 300 l/ha. When cultivating we recommend to use a sowing rate of viable seeds of 5,5 million/ha.