Table 1.

Fatty acid composition of ‘Bay’ and low-α-linolenic acid mutant soybean lines

Line	Palmitate	Stearate	Oleate	Linoleate	α-Linolenate
Bay	12.8 ± 0.8	3.9 ± 0.1	22.4 ± 1.5	50.8 ± 1.4	9.4 ± 0.8**
P1-A9	12.8 ± 0.4	3.3 ± 0.4	24.4 ± 3.9	53.3 ± 4.1	6.2 ± 0.1**
LOLL	14.4 ± 0.2	3.7 ± 0.5	22.7 ± 3.9	55.5 ± 3.9	3.6 ± 0.2*
LOLL-A9-1	14.1 ± 0.5	4.2 ± 0.6	22.8 ± 2.4	57.2 ± 2.3	1.7 ± 0.2
LOLL-A9-2	14.3 ± 1.0	3.6 ± 0.4	25.3 ± 4.3	55.1 ± 3.2	1.7 ± 0.2

All plants were grown in the same field. Values are means ± SD obtained from three independent experiments.

^*P < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01