. 2020 Mar 28;25(7):1550. doi: 10.3390/molecules25071550

Table 1.

Effect of season on fatty acid composition (mg/g DM) of C. ladanifer leaves.

	Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn	SEM	p Values
Total FA	17.0^b	13.6^a	13.6^a	17.5^b	0.99	0.037
12:0	0.12	0.10	0.03	0.14	0.026	0.091
14:0	0.64^b	0.64^b	0.29^a	0.55^b	0.064	0.015
15:0	-	0.003	-	0.007	0.0024	0.219
16:0	2.22	2.01	1.82	1.89	0.102	0.103
16:1	-	0.003	-	0.007	0.0037	0.561
17:0	0.013	0.033	0.007	0.033	0.0089	0.140
17:1	0.007	0.027	0.007	0.010	0.0112	0.561
18:0	1.18^a	1.08^a	1.07^a	1.73^b	0.088	0.002
iso-19:0	0.28^a	0.20^a	0.31^a	0.50^b	0.040	0.004
18:1 cis-9	0.55^a	0.55^a	1.36^b	0.68^a	0.064	<0.001
18:2n-6	1.67	1.50	1.80	1.57	0.231	0.805
20:0	4.89^bc	3.31^a	3.89^ab	5.97^c	0.346	0.003
18:3n-3	3.62^c	2.76^bc	1.34^a	2.24^ab	0.310	0.005
iso-21:0	0.46^a	0.29^a	0.49^ab	0.73^b	0.077	0.024
21:0	0.06	0.10	0.08	0.11	0.034	0.794
22:0	0.95	0.70	0.74	0.92	0.070	0.086
24:0	0.38	0.27	0.35	0.46	0.045	0.124
Partial sums
n-SFA	10.4^b	8.26^a	8.29^a	12.0^b	0.558	0.005
BCFA	0.74^a	0.49^a	0.80^a	1.23^b	0.110	0.009
MUFA	0.56^a	0.58^a	1.37^b	0.69^a	0.067	<0.001
PUFA	5.29^b	4.26^ab	3.15^a	3.81^a	0.434	0.044

FA—fatty acids; n-SFA—saturated fatty acids with linear chain; BCFA—branched chain fatty acids; PUFA—polyunsaturated fatty acids; SEM—standard error of the mean; Means with different letters within the same row are statistically different (p < 0.05).