Soft winter wheat variety 'Rostovchanka 7' and its cultivation technology
Soft winter wheat variety 'Rostovchanka 7' and its cultivation technology Winter wheat is an important food crop. On the gross grain harvest and areas under crops it ranks first in global agriculture. In 2015 more than 2,2 ml ha of the sowing areas were cultivated in the Rostov region. The increase of it is going to be up to 2,4 ml ha to 2020. Nowadays grain branch of Russia is greatly influenced with several global factors, among which global climate warming, fertility decrease and new phyto pathogens effect. Development of winter wheat varieties adapted to definite climatic conditions with a guaranteed of productivity increase is a solution to the problem of grain production stabilization. The article considers economic-biological characteristics of soft winter wheat variety of intensive type 'Rostovchanka 7'. The tested traits of the variety show, that fertilizing is the main agro technology which determines the amount of harvest of the variety. The variety of intensive type 'Rostovchanka 7' was introduced in the State Register of breeding achievements of RF from 2011. It's middle early, highly productive variety. Its grain productivity if 9,5 t/ha. It possesses a high resistance to common leaf and stem diseases of wheat. The flour and baking properties are excellent. The variety is included in the list of the most valuable wheat of Russia. The most valuable traits of the variety are its frost and drought resistance.