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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN OIL CHEMISTS SOCIETY
Volume 83, Issue 9, Pages 759-763Publisher
AMER OIL CHEMISTS SOC A O C S PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11746-006-5011-4
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environmental effect; fatty acid composition; mutation; oil quality; soybean breeding
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FA composition determines the quality of vegetable oil. Soybean breeders have generated and used mutations in FA genes to develop altered FA profiles in the seed. However, the expression of the alleles and the relative activity of the gene products are often dependent on the environment, and these facts have hampered the breeding efforts. To investigate the environmental effect on FA composition of soybean seed oil in specific mutant material developed at the University of Guelph, a recombinant inbred line (RIL) population was developed from a cross between a low palmitate (16:0) line and a high-stearate (18:0) parent. The RIL population was field-tested across three environments over 2 yr. A combined ANOVA for FA composition was conducted to determine the year and location effects on the expression of FA alleles in this material. The results indicated that linolenic (18:3) level was most vulnerable to the environmental changes. Year effects accounted for a greater amount of variance than location effects for 16:0, 18:0, and 18:1, whereas location effects were more important than year effects for the relative amounts of 18:2 and 18:3. Genotype x environment (year, location) interaction effects were significant for the relative amounts of all five FA according to the combined ANOVA. Our results indicated that the extreme minimum daily temperatures during September seed fill period, rather than the means or the maximum temperature, may be responsible for the ratio of saturated vs. unsaturated FA in soybean oil.
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