Effect of levels of phosphorus and iron on growth, yield and quality of flax

Abstract

This study was conducted during the growing season of 2012-2013 from 1st December ,2012 to 26th of May, 2013 to study the effect of three levels of phosphorus(0, 50 and 100 kg TSP ha -1 and the three levels of Cheated iron (0, 4 and 8 kg Fe-EDDHA ha -1 ) and their combinations on growth characters ,yield and quality of flax using split plot design with three replicates. The results indicated that the highest values of oil%, oil yield , P% , protein% and Fe concentration (23% , 346.47 kg .ha -1 ,6.65 %, 27.47 % and 151.90 ppm) were recorded from treatment combinations (P0 Fe1, P1 Fe0, P2Fe1, P1Fe0 and P2Fe2) respectively. On the other hand increase in levels of applied phosphorus and iron caused increase in seed index from (5.65 to 6.53 g) and from (5.24 to 6.39 g) respectively.