Figure 1.
Pickle roots contain triacylglycerols with a fatty acid composition similar to that of seeds. A) Lipid extracts were made from equivalent amounts of wild-type (lane 1) and pickle roots (lane 2) and analyzed by TLC. A portion of the TLC plate is shown. The position of the triacylglycerol standard (lane 3) is indicated by an arrow. B) The fatty acid composition of wild-type seeds, pkl seeds, and the triacylglycerol fraction from pickle roots as determined by GC. C) The fatty acid composition of wild-type and pkl leaves as determined by GC.