Evaluation and Adaptation of Cameline (Camelina sativa) Crantz L in Semi-Arid Algeria
Evaluation and Adaptation of Cameline (Camelina sativa) Crantz L in Semi-Arid Algeria
Dahbia Izountar1, Hafidha Boucherit1*, Ramdane Benniou2, Abderrahmane Hannachi3 and Mohamed Seddik Benattia4
ABSTRACT
Camelina sativa L., is a species of oilseed plant in the Brassicaceae family, recently introduced in Algeria. Camelina has been the subject of several research studies and should be proposed as an alternative crop. The trials were carried out during the 2021/2022 agricultural campaign; the objective of which was to evaluate the varietal diversity of Camelina sativa in Setif (Eastern Algeria). The trials were carried out in a completely randomized block design with four replicates. Mean differences in emergence, number of days to 50% flowering, number of siliques, number of seeds per silique, thousand kernel weight, seed and oil yield, and oil content between the seven varieties were significant (p<0.05). The results of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) show that variety V7 (Alba) performs best of the agronomic parameters: It produces 344 plants per square meter and is the earliest, lasting 104 days from sowing flowering, it produced the highest seed yield, at 1.8 t/ha. Analysis of variance showed that Alba (V7) was the best variety in terms of oil yield and oil content, with 345g/kg and 34.5%, respectively.
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