biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 64:814-820, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/bp.2020.146

Morphological diversity of seeds of Polish Festulolium cultivars depending on weather conditions

B. BORAWSKA-JARMUŁOWICZ1,*, G. MASTALERCZUK1,*, E. MAŁUSZYŃSKA2, W. BORUCKI3
1 Institute of Agriculture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, PL-02776, Warsaw, Poland
2 The Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - National Research Institute Radzików, PL-05870, Błonie, Poland
3 Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, PL-02776, Warsaw, Poland

Morphological traits of seeds of Festulolium braunii (K. Richt.) A. Camus cultivars were studied in relation to weather conditions. The obtained results show that morphological traits of seeds varied among cultivars and years of cultivation. The values of seed characteristics were higher in year 2016 due to more favorable weather conditions for plant growth. It was found that the husked seeds of Festulolium cultivars were characterized by a similar length and width regardless of the year, whereas naked seeds significantly differed in these characteristics. Mean values (from the research years) of seed parameters, such as thousand seed mass, area, convex area, shape factor, rectangle, as well as naked seed width showed variations among cultivars. At the same time, it was found that the mass of 1 000 seeds of individual cultivars showed the smallest variability in both years of the study (2.56 - 4.86 %) indicating a high stability of this trait. Thousand seed mass was significantly correlated with husked seed length / husked seed width ratio and husked seed length, and weakly correlated with yield.

Keywords: biometric parameters, husked and naked seeds, thousand seed mass.

Received: June 16, 2020; Revised: October 5, 2020; Accepted: October 6, 2020; Published online: December 16, 2020  Show citation

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BORAWSKA-JARMUŁOWICZ, B., MASTALERCZUK, G., MAŁUSZYŃSKA, E., & BORUCKI, W. (2020). Morphological diversity of seeds of Polish Festulolium cultivars depending on weather conditions. Biologia plantarum, 64, Article 814-820. https://doi.org/10.32615/bp.2020.146
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