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Published in Crop Sci 24:1020-1023 (1984)
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Triacylglycerol Metabolism in Soybean Seed with Genetically Altered Unsaturated Fatty Acid Composition1

Brett F. Carver and Richard F. Wilson2

Recurrent selection methodology has been utilized in the development of a soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] genotype, designated as N78-2245, that contains a high concentration of oleic acid (18:1) and lower concentrations of linoleic (18:2) and linolenic (18:3) acids compared to seed from typical soybean cultivars. Triacylglycerol (TG) is the predominant glycerolipid soybean oil. The nature of triacylglycerol deposition during the ontogeny of soybean seed with the high-l8:l trait has not been shown previously. The objective of this study was to determine how expression of the high-18:1 trait was affected through TG molecular species composition during seed development. To achieve that objective TG composition was evaluated in seed of N78-2245 and ‘Dare’, a typical soybean cultivar, at four stages of reproductive growth. For both genotypes developmental changes in TG fatty acid composition primarily were reflected by the levels of nine TG species enriched in 18:1 (SM2, Ms, and M2D), 18:2 (SD2, MD2, and D3) or 18:3 (MT2, D2T, and DT2); where S = palmitic (16:0) or stearic (18:0) acid, M = 18:1, 18:2, and T = 18.3. In N78-2245 seed all designated species enriched in 18:1, 18:2 or 18:3 respectively accounted for 80.8 mol%, 12.8 mol%, and 6.4 mol% of the TG deposited between 30 and 45 days after flowering (DAF); but accounted for 17.0 mol%, 76.8 mol%, and 6.2 mol% of the TG deposited between 45 and 75 DAF. These data have indicated that factors associated with increased seed age have significantly influenced the expression of the high-18:l trait in N78-2245 by restricting the deposition of TG species enriched in 18:1.

Key Words: Glycine max (L.) Merr. • Molecular species • Developing seed • Oleic acid • Linoleic acid • Linolenic acid

1 Cooperative investigations of the USDA-ARS and North Carolina Agric. Res. Serv., Raleigh, NC; and supported in part by Grant no. 80465 from the Research Foundatibh of the Am. Soybean Assoc. This research represents partial fulfillment of requirements for the M.S. degree for B. F. Carver. Paper no. 8810 of the Journal Series of the North Carolina Agric. Res, Serv. at Raleigh.

2 Research assistant, crop science, and supervisory plant physiologist, USDA-ARS and associate professor of crop science, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC27695-7620.

Received for publication April 18, 1983.




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