Table 4 Effect of cultivars on seed yield, its components, and oil and carbohydrate percentages of flax plants grown under sandy soil conditions (data are means of two successive seasons)
Cultivars | Plant height (cm) | Fruiting zone length (cm) | Technical length (cm) | Biol. yield/plant (g) | No. of fruiting branches/plant | No. of capsules/plant | Seed yield/plant (g) | 1000 Seeds wt. (g) | Biol. yield (ton/fed) | Seed yield (kg/fed) | Oil yield (kg/fed) | Oil% | Carbohydrate% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blanka | 76.03 | 26.77 | 49.26 | 18.55 | 21.53 | 103.23 | 5.38 | 7.67 | 3.033 | 528.52 | 130.33 | 24.66 | 27.76 |
Line-4 | 75.02 | 26.36 | 48.66 | 10.39 | 14.19 | 61.71 | 3.07 | 7.73 | 3.424 | 620.56 | 148.69 | 23.96 | 29.88 |
Giza-8 | 82.57 | 28.24 | 54.33 | 8.92 | 10.70 | 49.40 | 3.19 | 9.31 | 3.190 | 592.58 | 130.66 | 22.05 | 32.06 |
LSD 0.05 | 2.55 | 1.33 | 1.50 | 2.19 | 2.13 | 5.66 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 27.58 | 0.0524 | 0.19 | 0.21 |