Table 4 Fatty acid composition between jatropha accessions from different regions
A. Fatty acid composition of seed oil (% of total fatty acids) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fatty acids | Asia | Africa | South America | Central America |
C16:0* | 14.8a | 15.0a | 15.4a | 13.6b |
C16:1* | 0.7a | 0.7a | 0.7a | 0.6b |
C18:0(ns) | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.4 |
C18:1* | 46.1a | 42.0a | 42.9a | 34.5b |
C18:2* | 30.5a | 34.6a | 33.1a | 43.1b |
C18:3(ns) | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
* = variation between accessions is statistically significant (p < 0.05). (ns) = no significant differences (p > 0.05). Differences between regions significant when denoted with different letters. | ||||
B. Coefficient of genetic variation (CV g , standard deviation of set of accessions divided by the mean, as%) of fatty acid contents | ||||
Fatty acids | Asia | Africa | South America | Central America |
C16:0* | 4.4 | 6.7 | 10.4 | 4.3 |
C16:1* | 11.1 | 8.2 | 14.5 | 5.6 |
C18:0(ns) | 6.3 | 18.3 | 12.6 | 4.6 |
C18:1* | 9.4 | 9.4 | 8.4 | 17.4 |
C18:2* | 14.0 | 13.0 | 9.9 | 12.9 |
C18:3(ns) | 6.4 | 4.0 | 8.4 | 0 |
C. Range of fatty acid contents (% of total fatty acids) | ||||
Fatty acids | Asia | Africa | South America | Central America |
C16:0* | 12.4-17.5 | 13.1-16.9 | 10.5-17.1 | 11.3-16.6 |
C16:1* | 0.5-1.1 | 0.6-0.9 | 0.4-1 | 0.4-0.9 |
C18:0(ns) | 5.5-11.3 | 6.1-13.4 | 5.7-10.3 | 6.1-10.4 |
C18:1* | 31.0-53.8 | 34.2-52.1 | 35.9-49.5 | 24.1-50.7 |
C18:2* | 22.0-43.3 | 24-43.3 | 29.3-40.1 | 25.2-52 |
C18:3(ns) | 0.1-0.2 | 0.1-0.3 | 0.1-0.2 | 0.1-0.2 |
* = variation between accessions is statistically significant (p < 0.05). (ns) = no significant differences (p > 0.05). Differences between means of regions are significant when denoted with different letters (Table 4A). | ||||