Mid-Early New Generation Hybrid Turda 380 Adapted to Climate Change in the Center of the Country

Andrei Varga, Voichița Haș, Nicolae Tritean, Carmen Vana, Roxana Călugăr, Felicia Mureșanu, Laura Șopterean

Staţiunea de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Agricolă Turda

Keywords: yielding ability, maize, kernel quality.

Abstract: The activity of scientific research and in particular complex and intense activity to improve maize at the Agricultural Research and Development Station Turda led to achieving results in the creation of inbred lines of maize and hybrids with high genetic value.
Recently registered Turda 380 hybrid is distinguished by superiority in yielding ability, quality features and exploiting tehchnological factors. Turda 380 hybrid was tested at the State Institute for Variety Testing and Registration Bucharest, Romania (SIVTR), during 2019-2021 under normal conditions (no irrigation), at nine Variety Testing Centers (VTC). During the same three years (2019-2021) it was also tested at five different research stations. The maize hybrid Turda 380 was highlighted by an average yield of 10728 kg/ha, respectively, situating it self above Turda 332 and Turda 344, with a percentage of 5% and 7%, respectively. Maximum yields (over 10000 kg/ha) of 18759 kg/ha was recorded in 2019 at the Dej VTC, in 2019 at Rădăuți VTC (16607 kg/ha) and in 2020 at the Rădăuți VTC (16594 kg/ha).
Turda 380 is a mid-early hybrid (FAO 380), with dent a good kernel quality grain, especially protein (11.5%).
Turda 380 hybrid is are recommended to be cultivated in the Transylvanian Plain, the neighboring plateaus, the meadows of the rivers Mureș, Someș and Târnave, the center and northeast of Moldova, as well as the hilly regions to the West of the country.