Composition and correlation studies of fatty acids in seed oil of yellow sarson (Brassica campestris L.) cultivars and backcross derived zero erucic acid yellow sarson populations

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Rahman, M. H.
  • Stølen, O.
  • Rahman, L.
  • Rahman, M. M.

• The Yellow Sarson (Brassica campestris) cultivars of Bangladesh origin contain a high level (54%) of erucic fatty acid (C22:1). In the seeds of backcross derived zero-erucic acid Yellow Sarson populations, absence of erucic acid caused a simultaneous reduction in the content of arachidic (C20:0), eicosenoic (C20:1) and behenic (C22:0) fatty acids, with an increase in palmitic (C16:0), oleic (C18:1), linoleic (C18:2) and linoleic (C18:3) acids. The correlations of C16 (palmitic) and C18 (oleic and linoleic) fatty acids with all other C20 (arachidic and eicosenoic) and C22 (behenic and erucic) fatty acids were negative. Palmitic acid had positive correlations with oleic and linoleic acids. Among the C18 fatty acids, oleic acid was positively correlated with linoleic acid and linoleic acid was positively correlated with linoleic acid. On the other hand, all C20 and C22 fatty acids were positively correlated with each other.

• Date created

  1999-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Fatty acids
  • Brassica campestris
  • Yellow sarson oils
  • Backcross

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-wqdv-ec38

• License

  © 1999 M. H. Rahman et al. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.