Author(s)

Bakry Ahmed Bakry¹, Osama Anour Nofal², Mohamed Soliman Zeidan¹, Mahmoud Hozayn¹

¹Field Crops Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
²Plant Nutrition Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.

Two field experiments were carried out at the experimental station of National Research Centre, Al-Nubaria District, El-Behira Governorate, Egypt during winter seasons of 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 to study the effect of potassium soil application at the rates (0, 50, 75 and 100 kg/fed.) with or without chelated zinc foliar application 5% at the rate of (0.03 kg/fed.) on the yield and quality of two flax varieties (Sakha-2 and Amon) in newly reclaimed sandy soil. The obtained results could be summarized as follow: Sakha-2 variety significantly surpassed Amon in plant height, technical length, number of branches/plant, seed yield/plant, straw yield/plant, 1000 seed weight, seed yield/fed., straw yield/fed., fiber %, fiber yield/fed. and oil yield/fed. Amon variety surpassed Sakha-2 in fruiting zone length, number of capsules/plant and oil % in both seasons. Potassium soil application at the rate of (100 kg/fed.) with chelated zinc foliar application 5% at the rate of (0.03 kg/fed.) gave the highest value for all studied characters.

Flax, Potassium Fertilizer, Zinc Fertilizer

Bakry, A. B. , Nofal, O. , Zeidan, M. and Hozayn, M. (2015) Potassium and Zinc in Relation to Improve Flax Varieties Yield and Yield Components as Grown under Sandy Soil Conditions. Agricultural Sciences, 6, 152-158. doi: 10.4236/as.2015.61013.