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JournalofAgriculturalScienceandTechnologyB4(2014)299—311 Earliertitle：JournalofAgriculturalSciencena dTechnology，ISSN 1939-1250 Sa仟lowerEvaluationunderContrastedEnvironment ConditionsandSelectionofPromisingGenotypes LamyaeZraibi，MiloudKajeiou，HanaSerghiniCaidandAbdelghaniNabloussi ． LaboratoryofPlantsandMicroorganismsBiology,BioloygDepartmenLFacultyofSciences，UniversityofMohamedPremier, Oujda60000,Morocco 2．ResearchUnitofPlantBreedingandPlantGeneticResourcesConservation，NationalInstitutefo，AgriculturalResearch，CRRA ofMeknes，Meknes50000,Morocco Received：February21，2014／Published：April20，2014 Abstract：Developmentofstablecropscultivarsadaptedtoenvironmentalconstraintsisvcry importantofrf0odsecurity．Saff1ower． an oilseed crop whichtoleratesenvironmentalabioticstresses．issuitableformarginal1andsrelatively dry anddeprived from fertilizerinputsorirrigation．AsetofMoroccanandintroducedcultivarsaswel1asintemationalaccessionswereconductedatOujda (EasternofMorocco)during2009—2010ofrlateandconventionalsowingundertwowaterregimes，inafieldexperimentusinga completelyrandomizeddesign，withthreereplications．Theobjectivewastoevaluatetheeffectofgenotypeandcontrasting environmenton saffl owerbehaviorna dto selectgenotypeswith large adaptationtothecontrasted environmentalconditions． Morphological，physiologicalandagronomictraits，aswellasthestresssusceptibilityindex(ssi)，wererecordedinthisstudy． Resultsshowedsignificanteffectofgenotype，yera (sowingtime)，waterregimeandtheirinteractiononmostofthestudied parameters．Latesowinganddroughtaffectednegativelyallthepraametersexceptseedoilwhich lightlyincreasedunderdrought stress．Numberofheadsperplant(NHP)hadthes~ongestassociationwithseedyieldunderbothdroughtandnon—droughtconditions， andhencecouldbetakenasselectioncriterionforsafflowerseedyieldimprovement．Fiveaccessionsshowedthehighestoverall meanseedyield(1，000kg／ha)andfouraccessionsexhibitedthehighestoverallmeanseedoilcontent(310g／kg)．Forlatesowing， theaccessionsP126