Abstract
Camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz) is an alternative oilseed crop that is garnering increasing popularity due to its multiple applications and greater tolerance to adverse environmental conditions than oilseed rape. The study analyzed selected traits of 10 Canadian and Polish spring camelina genotypes grown in a field experiment in north-eastern Poland in 2015–2018. The greatest differences were observed in seed yield where the effect of weather and environmental conditions explained 72.7% of variance, the effect of genotype explained 5.9% of variance, and the effect of the genotype-by-environment interaction explained 5.7% of total variance. In contrast, 1000-seed weight was not affected by environmental conditions, and it was differentiated only by genotype which explained 73.3% of variance. Genotype was responsible for 4.5%–25.3% of the variance in the remaining traits. The genotype-by-environment interaction explained 2.0%–18.8% of variance in the examined traits. The additive main effects and multiplicative interaction model (AMMI) revealed that genotype 13CS0787-15 was potentially most suited for cultivation in the temperate climate of north-eastern Poland, Central Europe. This genotype was characterized by the highest seed yields and straw yields, as well as the greatest yield stability.
Highlights
Camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz) is one of the oldest crops of the family Brassicaceae
The variation in selected traits of 10 spring camelina genotypes grown in the temperate climate of north-eastern Poland (Central Europe) was analyzed
The developed AMMI models demonstrated that the analyzed traits of spring camelina plants were influenced mainly by environmental conditions and were significantly less affected by genotype
Summary
Camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz) is one of the oldest crops of the family Brassicaceae. Its exact origin is unknown, but it is considered to be a native species of south-eastern Europe and south-western. In Europe, camelina was farmed already in the Bronze Age, and on the territory of modern. Poland (Central Europe), it was grown during the period of the Lusatian culture Camelina was probably introduced to North America as impurities in hemp seeds and other crop seeds [1,2]. It was imported to Canada in 1863, where it was initially farmed on a small scale and became more widely produced only in the late 1990s. A camelina breeding program was initiated in 2005 by the Saskatoon Research and Development Center of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). In 2011, a similar program was undertaken in joint effort by the AAFC and Linnaeus Plant
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