RESEARCH ON SAFFLOWER (Carthamus tinctorius L.) CROP IN THE CONDITIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN ROMANIA

Safflower is an important crop for agriculture and industry (food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, etc.). The paper includes results regarding the influence of variety and fertilizer level on the safflower seeds yield and yield components obtained in the 2013-2014 agricultural year. The experiment was conducted at the Experimental farm Moara Domneasca of U.A.S.V.M. Bucharest. Observations and biometric measurements in dynamics were performed on plant height, number of branches per plant, number of heads per plant, seeds yield, thousand seed weight. Significant differences were observed between varieties and between fertilizer levels. The highest seeds yield was for fertilizer level N90P60K60, i.e. between 2064.32 kgha(-1) variety CW 88 OL and 2184.2 kgha(-1) variety Zanzibar. The results obtained are important for the study of adaptability of safflower varieties CW 1221, CW 88 OL and Zanzibar in the conditions provided by Southeastern Romania.