Interaction Between Various Irrigation and Nitrogen Levels Affect on Linseed (Linum utitatissimumL.) Fatty Acids, Yield and Growth Factors

Impact of Linseed Variety, Location and Production Year on Seed Yield, Oil Content and Its Composition

“…The same variety (Recital) may produce in one year the highest amount of the most important component of linseed oil, an α-linolenic acid, while in another year the lowest (47.36% and 53.03%, respectively for 2012 and 2013), most probably related to specific weather conditions of studied years. In accordance with data obtained in other studies [8,26], weather conditions (temperature and rainfall regime) may have an important effect not only on the oil production but also on linseed oil quality or fatty acid composition.…”

“…In 2013, the oil content of seeds mostly exceeded 40%, excluding the Savinja Valley location, on heavy soil. These results are comparable to those reported by Elayan Sohair et al [16] and Andruszczak et al [24] but are higher compared to Bayrak et al [25] and Rasouli et al [26]. In the field experiments conducted by Stafecka et al [21] from 2010 to 2013 in Latvia, the Duchess variety had 44.9% oil content, and Princess had 49.1%, while in our experiments, the oil content was lower for both varieties in both studied years.…”

“…The average oil yield and its content in seed dry mass vary greatly, depending on the source material (varieties, lines and population) [16,24] and agronomical conditions, including the location of production, soil type, water supply, fertilization, sowing date and weather conditions [10,15,[24][25][26][27]. The great variability of oil content, probably depending on the above-mentioned parameters, was evident in our experiments also: the oil yield of the studied linseed varieties, presented in Table 2, ranged from 292 kg/ha to 828 kg/ha in the year 2012 and from 241 kg/ha to 747 kg/ha in the year 2013, with averages of 559 kg/ha and 489 kg/ha, respectively.…”