Agro-Morphological Characterization and Some Seed Characteristics of Wild Crambe ( Brassicaceae ) Species in Turkey

Ilhan Subaşı
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Ilhan Subaşı: Department of Seed Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu 14030, Turkey

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: The seeds of wild Crambe species have potential to be used as a source of industrial oil and animal feed. In this study, 48 genotypes of three Crambe species collected from the flora of Turkey were grown under field conditions in Ankara/Turkey in 2014–2016. The seed protein ratio, plant height, number of branches per plant, number of seeds per plant, seed yield per plant, thousand seed weight and hulless/hulled seed ratio (H/H) were determined. The highest protein ratio was determined as 26.02% in the t18 accession of Crambe tataria species. Variations in the characteristics were analyzed using principal component analysis. In the factor analysis of Crambe maritima , Crambe orientalis , Crambe tataria and the mean of these three species, the first two principal components accounted for 100%, 58.06%, 59.93% and 100% of the total variations, respectively. There were positive correlations between the plant height and number of seeds per plant, seed yield per plant for C. orientalis , and number of branches per plant for C. tataria . Although seed yield per plant was high in C. tataria and C. orientalis , they are not suitable for conventional agriculture due to shell thickness, inhomogeneous plant emergence and shooting. Conventional cultivation of wild Crambe species can be made possible by eliminating these negative features with breeding and agronomic studies.

Keywords: wild Crambe; agro-morphology; protein ratio; crop wild relatives; genetic resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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