Assimilation of Nutritive Elements by Winter Wheat Plants of Ukrainian and European Selection After the Resumption of Spring Vegetation

Increasing the grain yield of winter wheat in Ukraine and in the world is largely related to achievements in selection and improvement of agrotechnics for its growing. Modern high-yielding varieties of winter wheat are characterized by a longer period of consumption of nutritive elements and their more efficient use. To realize their genetic potential, such varieties require an individual approach to the management of mineral nutrition of plants. However, the prevention of nutritional deficiencies due to non-compliance of fertilizers with the physiological needs of new varieties and hybrids until present time remains an unsolved problem. Therefore, the aim of our research was to compare the consumption of nutritive elements by winter wheat plants of Ukrainian and European selection after the resumption of spring vegetation. In the research had compared the dynamics of consumption of nutritive elements by winter wheat plants of four Ukrainian varieties: Rozkishna, Bunchuk, Smug-lyanka and Podolyanka; 8 varieties of Foreign selection: Balitus, Panonicus – Austria; Arctis, Matrix – Germany; Annitsa, Manditsa – Croatia; Bodichek and Daria – Czech Republic. The content of N, P, K and microelements in the aboveground organs of plants after the resumption of their spring vegetation in the tillering stage, shooting, flowering and complete ripeness (grain and straw separately) was determined. Wheat was grown on the varietal test field of theV. Yuryev Plant Research Institute of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine on typical heavy clayey loam chernozems with the same agrotechnics and fertilizers. Wea-ther conditions during the research period differed in the times of the dry period: in 2018 in April-May during the growth of vegetative mass, and in 2019 – in June–July, that is in the phase of grain ripening. It is found, that the nitrogen content in the aboveground part of winter wheat during the spring-summer vegetation was higher in varieties of European selection, except for well provided with moisture tillering phase in 2019. A similar trend of greater potassium accumulation had plants of European varieties whose potassium content in grain was higher by 0.03–0.14% in 2018 and by 0.22–0.24% in 2019 than in the varieties of Ukrainian selection. No significant permanent differences in the accumulation of phosphorus by plants between groups of varieties were found. The content of nutritive elements in grain and straw had less variability than in the