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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants8110524
Keywords
arachidonic acid; bryophytes; eicosapentaenoic acid; environmental stress; polyunsaturated fatty acid
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- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks under European Union Horizon 2020 programme [765115-MossTech]
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Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) often produce high amounts of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (vl-PUFAs) including arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4 Delta 5,8,11,14) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5 Delta 5,8,11,14,17). The presence of vl-PUFAs is common for marine organisms such as algae, but rarely found in higher plants. This could indicate that bryophytes did not lose their marine origin completely when they landed into the non-aqueous environment. Vl-PUFA, especially the omega-3 fatty acid EPA, is essential in human diet for its benefits on healthy brain development and inflammation modulation. Recent studies are committed to finding new sources of vl-PUFAs instead of fish and algae oil. In this review, we summarize the fatty acid compositions and contents in the previous studies, as well as the approaches for qualification and quantification. We also conclude different approaches to enhance AA and EPA productions including biotic and abiotic stresses.
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