Table 2.
Percentage of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids in lipid extracts of microsomal fractions from plants treated in different temperature and light conditions (l, light; d, dark), (24, 48, 72, and 96: h treatment)
| Treatment (% fatty acids) | |||||||||
| 22 °C l | 10 °C 24 l | 10 °C 24 d | 10 °C 48 l | 10 °C 48 d | 10 °C 72 l | 10 °C 72 d | 10 °C 96 l | 10 °C 96 d | |
| 16:0 | 25.0±0.6 | 23.8±0.4 | 25.1±1.6 | 23.4±2.5 | 21.6±0.6 | 25.9±0.6 | 24.1±2.8 | 22.3±1.6 | 27.8±0.8 |
| 18:0 | 3.7±0.6 | 4.5±0.4 | 3.8±0.1 | 4.0±0.2 | 3.7±0.0 | 3.4±0.1 | 3.7±0.0 | 4.0±0.0 | 3.3±0.1 |
| 18:1 | 12.7±0.1 | 16.0±0.2 | 16.2±0.4 | 15.3±0.8 | 13.6±0.1 | 15.1±0.4 | 16.4±0.5 | 11.7±0.1 | 15.1±0.0 |
| 18:2 | 22.5±0.2 | 26.7±0.3 | 24.8±0.4 | 24.0±0.6 | 20.3±0.2 | 23.3±0.3 | 18.5±0.5 | 20.2±0.1 | 17.8±0.0 |
| 18:3 | 36.3±0.1 | 29.2±0.5 | 30.1±0.7 | 33.6±0.9 | 40.0±0.2 | 32.5±0.3 | 37.4±1.8 | 41.8±1.3 | 36.1±0.9 |
Cotyledons of 8–10 plants were used for each experiment and values are average of two independent experiments. SD (P <0.05).