Relationship between Sowing Time, Variety, and Quality in Safflower

Table 3

Oleic and linoleic acid composition of safflower seeds sown in the autumn and spring.

Sowing time	Varieties	⁢Oleic acid composition			⁢Linoleic acid composition
		2014	2015	2014-15	2014	2015	2014-15
Autumn	Remzibey	16.73	36.20	26.46	72.93	53.50	63.21
	Dincer	13.10	20.50	16.80	77.13	68.73	72.93
	Balci	12.36	14.53	13.45	77.40	74.63	76.01
	Yenice	11.36	13.03	12.20	79.60	77.63	78.61
Spring	Remzibey	33.26	29.90	31.58	57.50	60.66	59.08
	Dincer	13.50	12.03	12.76	76.80	78.43	77.61
	Balci	16.43	15.90	16.16	73.63	74.36	74.00
	Yenice	11.00	13.16	12.08	80.00	76.66	78.33
Years
		15.97	19.40		74.37	70.57
Sowing time
Winter		13.39	21.06	17.22	76.76	68.62	72.69
Summer		18.55	17.75	18.15	71.98	72.53	72.25
Varieties
Remzibey		25.00	33.05	29.02	63.21	59.08	61.15
Dincer		13.30	16.26	14.78	72.93	77.61	75.27
Balci		14.40	15.21	14.80	76.01	74.00	75.00
Yenice		11.18	13.10	12.14	78.61	78.33	78.47
Significance status
Years (Y)		—	—		—	—
Sowing time (ST)				ns			ns
Varieties (V)
Y × ST		—	—		—	—
Y × V		—	—		—	—
ST × V
Y × ST × V		—	—		—	—

Significant at level 0.05; significant at level 0.01. Means shown by the different letters within a column are statistically different.