RESEARCH ON TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE L. FERTILITY IN RELATION WITH THE CROP SYSTEM
Abstract
The importance of red clover as forage crop and in rotations for soil improvement is well known, but a great attention is being paid in various countries, to the study of those factors which influence the seed-set of this plant. The present work deals with two of the factors, namely the influence of sowing system and harvest years on red clover seed set. We have tested in one stationary experiment the seed-set capacity of Select 1 Romanian variety of red clover, in relation with 5 different sowing systems and two cropping years. There were done observations regarding the number of offshoots per plant, the number of branches per offshoot, the number of capitula (heads) per plant, the number of flowers per capitulum, the number of seeds per capitulum in the both years of culture. Correlations between the red clover productivity elements were done also, and recommendations for the farmers who are interested in seed productions for red clover crops.The papers published in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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