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Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species

Diverse fatty acid structures from different plant species are important renewable resources for industrial raw materials and as liquid fuels with high energy density. Because of its immense geographical and topographical variations, China is a country with enormous diversity of plant species, inclu...

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Autores principales: Li, Changsheng, Cheng, Xiaojun, Jia, Qingli, Song, Huan, Liu, Xiangling, Wang, Kai, Zhao, Cuizhu, Zhang, Yansheng, Ohlrogge, John, Zhang, Meng
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28275379
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00224
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author Li, Changsheng
Cheng, Xiaojun
Jia, Qingli
Song, Huan
Liu, Xiangling
Wang, Kai
Zhao, Cuizhu
Zhang, Yansheng
Ohlrogge, John
Zhang, Meng
author_facet Li, Changsheng
Cheng, Xiaojun
Jia, Qingli
Song, Huan
Liu, Xiangling
Wang, Kai
Zhao, Cuizhu
Zhang, Yansheng
Ohlrogge, John
Zhang, Meng
author_sort Li, Changsheng
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description Diverse fatty acid structures from different plant species are important renewable resources for industrial raw materials and as liquid fuels with high energy density. Because of its immense geographical and topographical variations, China is a country with enormous diversity of plant species, including large numbers of plants endemic to China. The richness of this resource of species provides a wide range of fatty acids in seeds or other tissues, many of which have been identified by Chinese scientists. However, in the past, most publications describing analysis of these plants were written in Chinese, making access for researchers from other countries difficult. In this study, we investigated reports on seed and fruit oil fatty acids as described in Chinese literature. Six books and more than one thousand papers were collected and the identified fatty acids and relevant plant species were summarized. In total, about 240 fatty acids from almost 1,500 plant species were identified from available Chinese literature. Only about one third of these species were retrieved in the PhyloFAdb and SOFA online databases of plant fatty acids. By referring to a summary of plant species endemic to China, 277 Chinese endemic species from 68 families have been surveyed for seed fatty acids. These account for <2% of total Angiosperm species endemic to China indicating the scope of species yet to be surveyed. To discover additional new fatty acid structures that might benefit society, it is important in the future to study oilseed fatty acids of the many other Chinese endemic plants. As an example, seeds of five unsurveyed species were collected and their fatty acids were analyzed. Ricinoleic acid was detected for the first time in the Salicaceae family.
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spelling pubmed-53209412017-03-08 Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species Li, Changsheng Cheng, Xiaojun Jia, Qingli Song, Huan Liu, Xiangling Wang, Kai Zhao, Cuizhu Zhang, Yansheng Ohlrogge, John Zhang, Meng Front Plant Sci Plant Science Diverse fatty acid structures from different plant species are important renewable resources for industrial raw materials and as liquid fuels with high energy density. Because of its immense geographical and topographical variations, China is a country with enormous diversity of plant species, including large numbers of plants endemic to China. The richness of this resource of species provides a wide range of fatty acids in seeds or other tissues, many of which have been identified by Chinese scientists. However, in the past, most publications describing analysis of these plants were written in Chinese, making access for researchers from other countries difficult. In this study, we investigated reports on seed and fruit oil fatty acids as described in Chinese literature. Six books and more than one thousand papers were collected and the identified fatty acids and relevant plant species were summarized. In total, about 240 fatty acids from almost 1,500 plant species were identified from available Chinese literature. Only about one third of these species were retrieved in the PhyloFAdb and SOFA online databases of plant fatty acids. By referring to a summary of plant species endemic to China, 277 Chinese endemic species from 68 families have been surveyed for seed fatty acids. These account for <2% of total Angiosperm species endemic to China indicating the scope of species yet to be surveyed. To discover additional new fatty acid structures that might benefit society, it is important in the future to study oilseed fatty acids of the many other Chinese endemic plants. As an example, seeds of five unsurveyed species were collected and their fatty acids were analyzed. Ricinoleic acid was detected for the first time in the Salicaceae family. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5320941/ /pubmed/28275379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00224 Text en Copyright © 2017 Li, Cheng, Jia, Song, Liu, Wang, Zhao, Zhang, Ohlrogge and Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Plant Science
Li, Changsheng
Cheng, Xiaojun
Jia, Qingli
Song, Huan
Liu, Xiangling
Wang, Kai
Zhao, Cuizhu
Zhang, Yansheng
Ohlrogge, John
Zhang, Meng
Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species
title Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species
title_full Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species
title_fullStr Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species
title_full_unstemmed Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species
title_short Investigation of Plant Species with Identified Seed Oil Fatty Acids in Chinese Literature and Analysis of Five Unsurveyed Chinese Endemic Species
title_sort investigation of plant species with identified seed oil fatty acids in chinese literature and analysis of five unsurveyed chinese endemic species
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28275379
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00224
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