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Published on: September 5, 2013
Fatty acid composition of some medicinally useful seeds
Manjoosha Srivastava1, Ranjan Banerji, A K S Rawat
1Phytochemistry Division, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow 226 001, India. ms_sks2005@yahoo.co.in
Abstract:
Fatty acid composition of seeds from the fruits of Butea monosperma, Jatropha glandulifera and Portulaca oleracea of three different families, namely Papilionaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Portulaceae were determined through Gas Liquid Chromatography to find novel natural sources of essential fatty acids for human health and of economic interest. Comparative studies were also performed to ascertain the utilization of each species for domestic as well as industrial purpose and the quality parameters developed can be utilized as marker characters for the aforesaid seeds used by the pharmaceutical industries.
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