Effect of Cultivars and Planting Date on Yield, Oil Content, and Fatty Acid Profile of Flax Varieties (Linum usitatissimum L.)

Table 5

Average among the seven cultivars of palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoleic, and linolenic acids, content of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids (g/100 g), and unsaturated/saturated ratio at two planting dates.

Planting date	Palmitic	Stearic	Oleic	Linoleic	Linolenic	Sat.	Unsat.	Unsat./Sat.
PD1	6.55	7.33	28.95	15.82	48.68	13.88	93.45	6.85
PD2	6.57	7.44	31.43	15.23	47.24	14.01	93.90	7.03

PD1: June 11, 2008.
PD2: July 30, 2008.