Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIV, Issue 2
Written by Violeta VALCHEVA, Kostadin KOSTADINOV, Nadezhda SHOPOVA, Radoslav CHIPILSKI
Sweet corn falls into the group of vegetable crops with great sensitivity to environmental conditions. In climate change conditions, the manifestations of its productive parameters arouse high scientific interest due to the wide application of this crop. Therefore, the purpose of this study is a comparative analysis of four promising sweet corn varieties for Bulgaria - Zeaton F1, Turbo F1, HMX5389 F1 and HMX59YS832 F1. The experiments were carried out under the meteorological conditions of 2023 and 2024 on the Agricultural University of Plovdiv territory. The results obtained provide information about the productive and morphological parameters of the varieties. The variety with the shortest vegetation period, Turbo F1, has the best productive parameters: ear mass, number of rows in the ear, number of grains per ear, grain weight per ear, weight of 1000 grains and length of the grain. The correlation analysis calculated the strongest relationship between ear mass and both the kernel weight per ear and the mass of 1000 kernels.
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