Table 5.
Sterol composition (% of total sterols) of DHA- and control camelina.
| DHA camelina | Control camelina | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sterols | Hexane | CM 1 | Hexane | CM 1 |
| 24-dehydrocholesterol | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
| cholesterol | 5.7 | 7.6 | 4.7 | 7.2 |
| brassicasterol | 4.4 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 4.2 |
| cholest-7-en-3β-ol | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| campesterol | 24.5 | 20.8 | 25.7 | 21.7 |
| campestanol | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
| stigmasterol | 1.0 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 1.6 |
| sitosterol | 54.3 | 43.7 | 53.8 | 42.9 |
| ∆5-avenasterol (isofucosterol) | 4.2 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
| Sum | 95.5 | 89.6 | 92.6 | 85.9 |
| Others | ||||
| UN1 C28 1db | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.2 |
| UN2 C29 1db | 1.2 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| UN3 C29 2db | 0.9 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 2.4 |
| UN4 C28 1db | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| UN5 C30 2db | 1.2 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| UN6 C29 1db + C30 2db | 0.3 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 5.2 |
| Sum | 4.5 | 10.4 | 7.4 | 14.1 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Abbreviations: UN denotes unknown, C is number of carbon atoms and db denotes number of double bonds; 1 Polar lipid-rich extract containing glycolipids, phospholipids and residual TAG recovered by chloroform-methanol (CM) extraction post hexane extraction of crushed seed.