Table 4.

Effect of water stress and foliar spray with methyl jasmonate on oil content and fatty acid composition in shoots of soybean genotypes

Fatty acids fraction (%)		Giza 22				Giza 35
		Control	MeJA	Drought	Drought + jasmonic	Control	MeJA	Drought	Drought + jasmonic
C6	Caproic	0.16d	0.20d	0.39b	0.43a	0.05f	0.13e	0.10e	0.19d
C8	Caprylic	0.51c	0.52c	0.86b	1.27a	0.22e	0.41d	0.40d	0.85b
C10	Capric	0.41f	0.93d	1.40b	1.69a	0.67e	0.65e	0.82d	1.19c
C11	Undecnoic	0	4.42a	3.50b	4.56a	0	0	2.75c	3.90b
C13	Tridecanoic	1.60d	1.63e	2.18c	3.66a	1.00f	1.30f	1.82d	2.29c
C14:0	myristic	0.43d	0.69c	0.80b	1.05a	0.33e	0.47d	0.51d	0.63c
C14:1	Myristoleic	0.48f	0.70b	0.66c	0.68b	0.44f	0.35g	0.53e	0.59d
C15:0	Pentadecanoic	0.41e	0.35f	0.59d	1.12a	0.56d	0.29g	0.66c	0.93b
C16:0	Palmetic	0.79d	1.12c	1.06c	3.10a	0.49e	0.72d	0.66d	0.91c
C16:1	Palmitoleic	3.80b	0	0	0	1.70c	4.05b	0	2.09c
C17:1	Cis 10 heptadecenoic	1.03b	0	0	1.61a	0	0	0.58c	0
C18:0	Stearic	0.42d	0.13 g	0.20f	0.66a	0.33e	0.45d	0.19f	0.56c
C18:1,2	Oleic Linoleic	16.50e	18.59d	26.40b	29.40a	11.80f	15.83e	17.80d	27.23b
C18:3	linolenic	9.16c	13.3b	12.0b	23.9a	6.06d	7.5d	11.3b	19.19b
C20:0	Arachidic	0.45e	1.23c	1.11d	1.25c	0.37e	0.50e	1.76a	1.66a
C20:5	Eicosapentaenoic	0	0.61d	1.10b	1.28a	0	0	0.97b	1.09b
C21:0	Heneicosanoic	5.64c	0	6.41b	8.03a	0	0	0	8.68a
C22:0	Behenic	1.79d	0.49e	2.80b	3.10a	0.44e	0	1.71d	2.21c
C22:1	Erucic	2.60e	0.95f	5.95d	6.75c	0.84f	0.45f	7.62b	10.15a
C24:1	Nervonic	0.40d	0.53c	0.59c	1.74a	0.35d	0.40d	0.42d	0.59c
Total amount of saturated		12.61d	11.71d	21.30c	29.92b	4.46e	4.92e	11.38d	24.00c
Total amount of unsaturated		33.97d	34.68d	46.7c	65.36a	21.19f	28.58e	39.22d	60.93b
Total fatty acids		46.58d	46.39d	68.00c	95.28a	25.65f	33.5e	50.60d	84.93b
% of oil		6.68c	7.54a	6.28d	6.94b	6.82b	7.67a	5.02e	6.16d

Mean values in the same row for each trait followed by a different lower-case letter are significantly different according to Fisher’s Least Significant Difference (LSD) test at P ≤ 0.05