Table 8. Linoleic acid content (%) in maize oil as influenced by cultivar and levels of NPK in two years.

Levels of NPK	Linoleic acid
	P 3522		P 3396		Rajkumar
	2012–13	2013–14	2012–13	2013–14	2012–13	2013–14
50% RDF	52.14a-c	52.33a-c	51.08b-d	48.37cd	48.75b-d	50.01b-d
75% RDF	34.26e	50.61b-d	54.34ab	50.19b-d	50.43b-d	47.22de
100% RDF	51.31bc	51.31b-d	51.13bc	51.16b-d	51.15bc	46.85de
125% RDF	50.44b-d	51.07b-d	49.28b-d	52.72a-c	51.88a-c	48.47cd
150% RDF	51.93a-c	49.97b-d	50.49b-d	49.35b-d	53.35a-c	49.77b-d
100% PK	52.07a-c	52.20a-c	52.04a-c	43.66e	49.80b-d	55.98a
100% NK	52.84a-c	51.09b-d	52.28a-c	53.38ab	50.49b-d	50.77b-d
100% NP	45.52d	49.70b-d	49.70b-d	51.17b-d	53.18a-c	50.41b-d
Control	57.20a	55.67a	49.57b-d	53.02ab	48.36cd	51.34b-d
Sources of variation
Year	ns
Cultivar	ns
Levels of NPK	**
Year × cultivar	**
Year × levels of NPK	*
Cultivar × levels of NPK	**
Year × cultivar × levels of NPK	**

Within cultivar, levels of NPK or year, numbers followed by different letters indicate significant differences at p ≤ 0.05 (otherwise statistically at par); ns: non-significant (p > 0.05);

*Significant at p ≤ 0.05;

**Significant at p ≤ 0.01;

Recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF), 200-60-60 kg N-P₂O₅-K₂O ha⁻¹