Table 13 Effect of cultivars and benzoic, t-cinnamic, and salicylic acids on seed yield and its components of flax plants grown under sandy soil conditions (data are means of two successive seasons)
Cultivars | Materials | Plant height (cm) | Fruiting zone length (cm) | Technical length (cm) | Biological yield/plant (g) | No. of branches/plant | No. of capsules/plant | Seed yield/plant (g) | 1000 Seeds wt. (g) | Biological yield (ton/fed) | Seed yield (kg/fed) | Oil yield (kg/fed) | Oil% | Carbohydrates% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blanka | Benzoic a | 82.75 | 34.67 | 48.09 | 19.23 | 23.33 | 60.33 | 2.35 | 7.66 | 2.60 | 416.20 | 102.14 | 24.54 | 27.80 |
T-cinnamic | 80.11 | 30.22 | 49.89 | 16.48 | 20.33 | 60.78 | 4.42 | 7.73 | 3.10 | 545.60 | 137.93 | 25.28 | 27.57 | |
Salicylic | 91.00 | 37.46 | 53.54 | 20.37 | 20.33 | 80.55 | 6.54 | 7.62 | 3.55 | 661.20 | 160.14 | 24.22 | 27.91 | |
Line-4 | Benzoic | 73.75 | 25.42 | 48.33 | 11.20 | 15.17 | 69.28 | 4.25 | 7.37 | 3.14 | 580.32 | 139.04 | 23.96 | 29.70 |
T-cinnamic | 75.89 | 31.00 | 44.89 | 10.27 | 15.78 | 61.56 | 4.04 | 7.84 | 3.53 | 634.59 | 152.56 | 24.04 | 30.10 | |
Salicylic | 75.89 | 25.22 | 50.67 | 9.42 | 11.29 | 51.78 | 3.67 | 8.10 | 3.70 | 660.20 | 157.59 | 23.87 | 29.92 | |
Giza-8 | Benzoic | 81.58 | 25.00 | 56.58 | 12.54 | 6.75 | 33.92 | 3.45 | 9.37 | 3.17 | 532.20 | 113.25 | 21.28 | 31.53 |
T-cinnamic | 84.78 | 31.23 | 53.55 | 12.57 | 12.56 | 60.33 | 3.65 | 9.41 | 3.20 | 645.33 | 151.85 | 23.53 | 33.35 | |
Salicylic | 81.66 | 29.56 | 52.11 | 13.11 | 14.11 | 59.11 | 4.12 | 9.14 | 3.20 | 620.32 | 133.99 | 21.60 | 31.47 | |
LSD 0.05 | 2.23 | 1.30 | 2.03 | 1.10 | 1.18 | 2.05 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.12 | 21.17 | 15.25 | 0.07 | 0.37 | |