Abstract

The achievement of high-quality grain requires the improvement of production technologies. The choice of a variety adapted to natural conditions and arid climate is defined as an innovative component in the intensive technology for the production of high-quality grain for the food supply of the population. Agricultural producers of the Volgograd region take part in solving the problem of providing the world's population and, in particular, Russians with high-quality winter wheat grain. The Federal Scientific Center of Agroecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Volgograd, has been working on obtaining new varieties of grain crops in arid regions for more than 30 years. Producers of winter wheat grain are presented with the results of a comparative assessment of winter wheat varieties bred by the Federal Scientific Center of Agroecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, field trials, which were carried out during 2019–2021. in arid conditions of the range on chestnut soils of the Lower Volga region. For a comparative study of the yield and grain quality of winter wheat varieties, varieties selected by the Federal Scientific Center of Agroecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences were taken for study. The structure of the crop was determined by the method of selection and analysis of sheaves from plants. The quality of the crop was determined with an InfraLUM FT-10 grain analyzer. Among the tested varieties of winter wheat, the Elanskaya variety was singled out, which outperforms the others in terms of yield and grain quality with a protein content of 15.5%, gluten 30.1%, and virtuousness 85%. The grain content of the Elanskaya variety is 13 g/l higher than that of the control variety Don 93.