Author/Authors :
KOLARIĆ, Ljubiša University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture, SERBIA , POPOVIĆ, Vera M. Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, SERBIA , PAUNOVIĆ, Jelena University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture, SERBIA , ŽIVANOVIĆ, Ljubiša University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture, SERBIA , IKANOVIĆ, Jela University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture, SERBIA , SIKORA, Vladimir Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, SERBIA
Abstract :
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is one of the most important plants intended for the domestic industry in Serbia. The main objective of this work was to study the effect of cultivar and the harvest date on the yield and quality of sugar beet (sugar content). During two-year period (2013 and 2014), the influence of different harvest dates (25.8-1.9. and 28.10-10.11) on sugar beet yield and quality of selected genotypes was conducted. Research was carried out by field micro experiments in agroecological conditions of Central Banat (Zlatica, Zrenjanin), on chernozem soil type. Experiments were conducted by total random block system method in five replications.The obtained results show that higher root yield was given by the later-second harvest date, and sugar content by the earlier-first harvest date. Statistical differences were at very high level. The highest root yield was given by cv. Alfonsa and the sugar content by cv. Jasmina EPD.
Keywords :
root yield , sugar content , cultivar , harvest date , sugar beet
