In order to ascertain the suitable wheat cultivars and the breeding direction in eastern Shandong,several characteristic differences of two spike-type cultivars of wheat were studied by t-test using 11 wheatgenotypes. The results showed that grass weight per stem, weight length per stem, grains per spike, thousandgrain weight, spike weight per stem of large-spike cultivar were 0.958 g, 0.011 g/cm, 5.354 grain, 5.460 g,0.504 g higher than that of multi- spike cultivar, which all reached extremely significant...