The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry"
Časopis "Poljoprivreda i šumarstvo"
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Year 2013, Volume 59 Issue 1
| Year : | 2013 |
| Volume : | 59 |
| Issue : | 1 |
| Authors : | Orjeta JAUPAJ, Ilirjana STAMO, Vladimir MALO, Nikolla BARDHI, Aferdita LASKA |
| Title : | WHEAT: IN SEARCH OF DIVERSE FEATURES TO SUCCESSFULLY COPE WITH A CHANGING WORLD |
| Abstract : | Among the many challenges agriculture faces today, the main one remains the issue of agricultural plant adaption to the expected trends of climate change. As predicted by climate models, this phenomenon is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme climatic events. This implies that more intense and prolonged rainy as well as dry periods are likely to strike the globe. Albania is projected to be one of the most affected countries by this phenomenon, as compared to the other countries in Europe and Central Asia. Albania recently faced this type of extreme event, in autumn 2010, when vast arable lands were inundated. Under these conditions, the planting of the wheat culture in the central part of the country had to be postponed until the first days of January 2011, when we planted several wheat varieties irradiated with gamma rays aiming at genetic improvement by means of the mutation induction approach. Given these conditions, one of the main goals of our study became the selection of genetic lines that were less influenced by forced late planting. Following this idea, the next year the seeds of the first generation were again planted in the first days of January 2012. In this paper we will present the performance of some physiological, biometric and yield elements of the LB7 variety whose irradiated variants seem to have performed better than control plants. For comparison purposes, we are also going to use control and irradiated plants planted in Lushnja plots during the first days of December, which is considered the normal planting time. |
| For citation : | Orjeta JAUPAJ, Ilirjana STAMO, Vladimir MALO, Nikolla BARDHI, Aferdita LASKA (2013): WHEAT: IN SEARCH OF DIVERSE FEATURES TO SUCCESSFULLY COPE WITH A CHANGING WORLD. Agriculture & Forestry, Vol. 59. Issue 1: 29-39, 2013, Podgorica |
| Keywords : | wheat, heavy rainfall, climate change, photosynthetic pigments, yield |
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