Testing the influence of Climatic Factors upon Potato (Solanum tubersum L.) Culture

摘要

Climatic conditions play an increasingly visible, universally recognized role globally, climatic conditions are receiving increasing attention, being intensively monitored, with the help of a complex infrastructure. Potato culture, very widespread worldwide, occupies an important place in national vegetable production, being influenced by a number of factors, including climate. The present study aimed to identify the influence of climatic conditions, represented by wind speed, temperature and relative air humidity, specific to the Transylvanian Plain on the production of a local potato variety. The experimental device was located in a private vegetable farm located near the Municipality of Cluj-Napoca and the biological material is the Romanian semi-late potato variety Redsec. Two main factors were identified with an influence on the productivity of potato cultivation, among which one is represented by climatic conditions and which is responsible for 25.47% of the variance.