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

Table 2.

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

	Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn	SEM	p Values
Total FA	3.60	3.18	3.71	3.35	0.433	0.818
12:0	0.013^a	0.010^a	0.022^b	0.020^b	0.0019	0.008
14:0	0.057	0.051	0.058	0.056	0.0054	0.771
15:0	0.007	0.008	0.007	0.006	0.0009	0.510
16:0	0.64	0.58	0.53	0.49	0.052	0.282
16:1	0.006	0.006	0.006	0.007	0.0011	0.952
17:0	0.018	0.019	0.021	0.019	0.001	0.234
18:0	0.23	0.20	0.20	0.25	0.029	0.495
iso-19:0	0.002	0.005	0.004	0.009	0.0026	0.284
18:1 cis-9	0.25^a	0.30^ab	0.42^b	0.25^a	0.036	0.038
18:2n-6	0.49	0.43	0.39	0.35	0.066	0.514
20:0	0.69	0.52	0.62	0.64	0.133	0.828
20:1	0.015	0.021	0.018	0.024	0.0061	0.760
18:3n-3	0.11^b	0.12^b	0.07^a	0.06^a	0.012	0.011
21:0	0.030	0.025	0.029	0.027	0.0042	0.857
22:0	0.77	0.66	1.01	0.84	0.104	0.206
24:0	0.27	0.22	0.33	0.30	0.040	0.301
Partial sums
n-SFA	2.73	2.29	2.82	2.65	0.335	0.702
MUFA	0.27	0.33	0.45	0.29	0.044	0.079
PUFA	0.60	0.56	0.45	0.41	0.077	0.322

FA—fatty acids; n-SFA—saturated fatty acids with a 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).