“…All genotypes extracted macronutrients in the following descending order: N > K > Ca > P > Mg > S (Table 3), at the following quantities: 250 kg ha -1 of N, 144 kg ha -1 of K, 99 kg ha -1 of Ca, 48 kg ha -1 of P, 38 kg ha -1 of Mg, and 22 kg ha -1 of S. Ravi et al (2008) found nutrient extraction order of N > K > S > P, with no data for Ca and Mg. Kumar et al (2015), evaluating extraction of N, P, K, confirmed that safflower extracted more K than N, followed by P. However, the soil in which the experiment was conducted had low levels of N and high levels of K. Anicésio et al (2015) observed that the accumulation of N in the plants increased linearly with the application of this nutrient into the soil, which varied from 0 to 480 kg ha -1 of N. The extraction and export of macronutrients, and requirements for macronutrients varied with genotype (Tables 3, 4 and 5). According to Borges et al (2009) and Sanes et al (2013), the variation in the kinetic parameters of nutrient absorption and the morphological differences of the root system make the differentiated absorption of nutrients quite common among cultivars of the same species, as verified by Erdal and Baydar (2005) and Murthy (2006) in safflower, by Jardini et al (2014) in sunflower, and Ludwig et al (2013) in gerbera-both species of the Asteraceae family, the same as safflower. The extraction of N differed statistically among genotypes (Table 3).…”