Table 3.
Total lipid content (% DW) and fatty acids composition (%) in seeds of the 9 coffee species studied (n−?=position of the double bound unknown). Results of one‐way ANOVAs: F and P. For each variable, means with a common letter were not significantly different at P=0.05 according to the Newman and Keuls test.
| Species | Lipid content | Fatty acid composition (%) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (% DW) | C14:0 | C15:0 | C15:1, n−? | C16:0 | C17:0 | C18:0 | C18:1, n−9 | C18:2, n−6 | C18:3, n−3 | C20:0 | C20:1, n−9 | C22:0 | |
| C. arabica | 16.1 a | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 40.4 d | 0.2 | 9.8 de | 7.7 b | 34.7 c | 1.1 b | 4.3 b | 0.4 d | 1.2 b |
| C. brevipes | 9.8 b | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 35.7 b | 0.1 | 9.2 d | 13.6 e | 31.0 b | 1.5 c | 6.0 c | 1.1 f | 1.5 c |
| C. canephora | 11.0 c | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 34.2 a | 0.1 | 6.3 a | 10.2 cd | 42.9 e | 0.8 ab | 3.7 b | 0.4 d | 1.2 b |
| C. eugenioides | 15.0 d | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 45.9 e | 0.2 | 8.2 c | 5.3 a | 34.7 c | 1.8 d | 2.7 a | 0.2 c | 0.7 a |
| C. liberica | 13.7 e | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37.9 c | 0.2 | 8.2 c | 10.4 cd | 36.9 d | 0.8 ab | 4.0 b | 0.5 e | 1.0 ab |
| C. pseudozanguebariae | 34.6 f | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 d | 0.2 | 16.3 f | 9.1 c | 28.3 a | 0.5 a | 4.2 b | 0.2 c | 0.8 ab |
| C. racemosa | 13.9 e | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 45.0 e | 0.1 | 10.4 e | 10.6 cd | 29.3 a | 0.5 a | 2.9 a | 0.0 a | 1.0 ab |
| C. sessiliflora | 21.4 g | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38.3 c | 0.2 | 19.5 g | 6.6 ab | 28.2 a | 0.5 a | 5.6 bc | 0.0 a | 1.0 ab |
| C. stenophylla | 13.4 e | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.2 cd | 0.0 | 7.3 b | 11.6 d | 37.0 d | 0.5 a | 3.3 a | 0.1 b | 0.9 ab |
| F | 519.9 | 19.5 | 61.6 | >105 | 81.2 | 26.4 | 353.8 | 36.1 | 78.1 | 29.9 | 34.5 | 129.4 | 7.8 |
| P | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |