Abstract:

Due to the increased interest of farmers in grass and feed plants in recent years, studies on these plants have also increased. Although many of the properties of these plants have been studied, there is not enough research on the physical properties of the seeds of the plants. This study was conducted between 2016-2017 years. As a vegetable material, 6 different Italian grass (Lolium multiflorum L.) plant varieties (Caramba, Efe-82, Pollanum, Rambo, Trinova and Vespolini) are supplied and used by the board of food plants. Some physical characteristics of these seeds (form-size, surface area, average geometric diameter, average arithmetic diameter, globality and a thousand dams weight) have been studied. According to the data obtained, the surface area values of the seeds were 1.65 mm2 and 2.38 mm2; the average geometric diameter values were 3.45 mm and 5.47 mm; the average arithmetic diameter values were 1.84 mm and 2.14 mm; the globality values were 1.14 mm and 1.55 mm and the weight of a thousand dams varied between 1.92 g and 5.06 g. In addition, the correlation analysis was conducted using the TOTEMSTAT program, and it was determined that there were positive and important relationships between the characteristics studied according to the outcome results.

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