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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN OIL CHEMISTS SOCIETY
Volume 87, Issue 11, Pages 1263-1269Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11746-010-1615-9
Keywords
Sesame; Indian germplasm; Fatty acid composition; Gas chromatography; Poly unsaturated fatty acid; Sesamum indicum L
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- University Grant Commission, Government of India
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A germplasm collection of 33 entries comprising 22 sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) cultivars, 4 landraces of S. mulayanum and 7 other accessions of 4 wild species were analyzed for the fatty acid compositions of their seed oil. The entries varied widely in their fatty acid compositions. The percentage content of oleic, linoleic, palmitic and erucic acids ranged between 36.7-52.4, 30.4-51.6, 9.1-14.8 and 0.0-8.0, respectively. Linolenic and arachidonic acids were the minor constituents but varied widely in wild species. Oleic and linoleic were the major fatty acids with mean values of 45.9 and 40.5%, respectively and the mean of their combined values was 86.4%. The polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) compositions ranged from 30.9 to 52.5% showing high variation in PUFA in the germplasm. Linoleic acid content was very high in one landrace (47.8) and one accession each of three wild species, S. mulayanum (49.3), S. malabaricum (48.2) and S. radiatum (51.6%). Use of fatty acid ratios to estimate the efficiency of biosynthetic pathways resulted in high oleic and low linoleic desaturation ratios and consequently high linoleic and very low linolenic acid contents in seed oil. The results of this study provided useful background information on the germplasm and also identified a few accessions having high linoleic acid which can be used for developing cultivars with desirable fatty acid compositions.
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