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Safflower: A Multipurpose Crop for the Marginal Lands

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Both soil and water salinity reduce the crop productivity in agricultural lands throughout the world. To cope with this scourge, we need crops that can be cultivated successfully in the marginal lands with salt problem. To explore salinity tolerance in safflower, a field experiment comprising of six cultivars was conducted using low (0.3 dS/m) and high (15 dS/m) saline water. Eight morphological and agronomic traits including days to flowering, petal life, plant height, number of branches/plant, number of capitula/plant, number of seeds/capitulum, seed yield/plot, and 100-seed weight were studied to compare the performance of the safflower genotypes at two different salinities. High salinity accelerated the flowering time by about 3 days and decreased the petal life by 2 days. Due to high saline water treatment, plant height of the safflower genotypes reduced on average by 21%, number of capitula 28%, number of seeds per capitulum 16%, 100-seed weight 12%, and seed yield about 25%. On the other hand, salinity had negligible effect on the number of branches. The results indicate that safflower has the potential to be cultivated in the region with salinity problem as an oil seed, fodder, and floriculture crop.

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  1. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Mohammad Shahid, Abdullah Jaradat & N. K. Rao

  2. Agricultural Research Service, Morris, MN, USA

    Abdullah Jaradat

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  2. Institute of Agronomy & Veterinary Hassan II, Rabat, Morocco

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  3. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

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Shahid, M., Jaradat, A., Rao, N.K. (2020). Safflower: A Multipurpose Crop for the Marginal Lands. In: Hirich, A., Choukr-Allah, R., Ragab, R. (eds) Emerging Research in Alternative Crops. Environment & Policy, vol 58. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90472-6_12

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