| Abstract: | Changes in Various Components in Single Sunflower Fruits after Mutagenous Treatment in M2 and M3 These investigations had the goal to find two different oil types with high linoleic acid content for dietfood at the one side and with high oleic acid content for special purposes for example as frying oils at the other side. By mutagenic treatment with Ethyl-methane-sulfonate and radiation the variability of fatty acid composition should be increased. After EMS-treatment a variation range from 36.6 to 83.4% linoleic acid and from 10.6 to 44.8% oleic acid was found by means of single seed investigations. After radiation with 10 KR x-rays linoleic acid content varied from 43.5 to 84.9% and oleic acid content varied from 9.2 to 42.4%. Oil and protein content as well as hull percentage of single seeds had wide variation, too. Correlation calculations showed highly negative correlations between contents of oleic and linoleic acid in all cases and partially relations between fruit size and oil and protein content. |
