Determination of agricultural and technological characters of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius l.) lines developed by single seed descent selection methods

This study was conducted in 2016 at Isparta Applied Sciences University, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Department of Field Crops. Total of 68 lines (20 progenies from GE × CE, 20 from GE × W6 and 28 from GE × MO) were selected with single seed descent methods up to F8 generation. These lines derived from hybridization of Gelendost-2 used as female and Centennial (CE), Montola 2000 (MO) and W6 9822(W6) used as pollen donors. Standard cultivars (Gelendost-2, Montola 2000, W6 9822, Dinçer 5-18-1, Remzibey-05, Balcı, Linas and Olas) were also used along with the alove lines as plant materials. The lines and standard cultivars were planted with 3 replications in March as the randomized blocks design. In the genotypes, agronomic characteristics such as; plant height, number of branches, number of heads, head diameter, number of seeds per head, 1000 seed weight and seed yield, and quality characteristics such as; hull content, oil content, oil yield and fatty acid composition were investigated. According to the results obtained; 1000 seed weight, seed yield, oil content and oil yield were varied between 30.2-51.0 g, 30.2-252.6 kg/da, 25.1-35.4% and 10.0-77.2 kg/da, respectively. GECE-11, 12 had higher 1000seed weight, GEMO-10, 19 had higher seed yield, GEMO-1, 20, 28, GEW6-16, 20 and GECE-4, 8, 9, 12 had higher oil content, GEMO-10, 19, 28 and GEW6-20 had higher oil yield than standard cultivars. As a result, 4 yield types (GECE-11, 12 and GEMO-10,19), 11 oil types (GEMO-1, 10, 19, 20, 28, GEW6-16, 20 and GECE-4, 8, 9, 12), 2 oleic types (GEMO-3 and GEMO-23), 1 linoleic type (GECE-7) total 15 lines are transferred to the next generation.