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Variation in seed fatty acid composition and sequence divergence in the FAD2 gene coding region between wild and cultivated sesame.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 3 Dec 2014
Chen Zhenbang, Tonnis Brandon, Morris Brad, Wang Richard B, Zhang Amy L, Pinnow David, Wang Ming Li
Abstract excerpt
Sesame germplasm harbors genetic diversity which can be useful for sesame improvement in breeding programs. Seven accessions with different levels of oleic acid were selected from the entire USDA sesame germplasm collection (1232 accessions) and planted for morphological observation and re-examination of fatty acid composition. The coding region of the FAD2 gene for fatty acid desaturase (FAD) in these accessions...
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