Table 11 Effect of cultivars and benzoic, t-cinnamic, and salicylic acids on growth parameters of flax plants grown under sandy soil conditions (data are means of two successive seasons)
Cultivars | Materials | Shoot length (cm) | No. of basal branches | Shoot fresh wt/plant (g) | Shoot dry wt/plant (g) | Root length (cm) | Root fresh wt/plant (g) | Root dry wt/plant (g) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blanka | Benzoic | 59.92 | 3.00 | 9.26 | 1.00 | 9.08 | 1.25 | 0.23 |
T-cinnamic | 62.11 | 2.89 | 10.33 | 0.90 | 13.28 | 1.17 | 0.27 | |
Salicylic | 64.22 | 2.11 | 10.27 | 1.13 | 14.05 | 1.33 | 0.23 | |
Line-4 | Benzoic | 49.17 | 2.50 | 4.55 | 0.52 | 13.13 | 0.80 | 0.12 |
T-cinnamic | 56.22 | 3.56 | 6.47 | 0.65 | 10.89 | 0.70 | 0.13 | |
Salicylic | 52.67 | 2.89 | 5.72 | 0.66 | 13.11 | 0.66 | 0.12 | |
Giza-8 | Benzoic | 61.42 | 1.94 | 8.12 | 0.90 | 11.92 | 1.18 | 0.53 |
t-Cinnamic | 63.11 | 1.78 | 6.82 | 0.78 | 14.67 | 0.97 | 0.45 | |
Salicylic | 66.45 | 1.67 | 7.97 | 0.87 | 12.78 | 1.09 | 0.51 | |
LSD 0.05 | 1.22 | 0.33 | 0.51 | 0.23 | 0.55 | 0.08 | 0.05 | |