Analysis of Calotropis gigantea,Acacia Caesia and Abelmoschus Ficulneus seeds |
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Authors: | K Sundar Rao A J Pantulu G Lakshminarayana |
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Affiliation: | (1) Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR), 500 009 Hyderabad, India |
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Abstract: | The percentage contents of oil and protein in the seeds of Calotropis gigantea Linn. (Asclepiadaceae), Acacia caesia Willd.,
syn. A. intsia (Leguminosae) and Abelmoschus ficulneus Wight & Arm., syn. Hibiscus ficulneus Linn. (Malvaceae) were 30.8,
8.8 and 14.4, and 19.0, 11.7 and 20.0, respectively. The major fatty acid was 18:1 in C. gigantea and 18:2 in the other two
seeds oils. Malvalic, sterculic and dihydrosterculic acids were present in small quantities in A. ficulneus seed oil. The
major essential amino acids in the seed proteins were phenylalanine, lysine and histidine in C. gigantea, threonine and arginine
in A. caesia and lysine and phenylalanine in A. ficulneus. |
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