Shoots and Turions of Aquatic Plants as a Source of Fatty Acids

Fatty acids are essential for human health. Currently, there is a search for alternative sources of fatty acids that could supplement such sources as staple crops or fishes. Turions of aquatic plants accumulate a variety of substances such as starch, free sugars, amino acids, reserve proteins and li...

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Published inMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 29; no. 9; p. 2062
Main Authors Strzemski, Maciej, Adamec, Lubomir, Dresler, Sławomir, Mazurek, Barbara, Dubaj, Katarzyna, Stolarczyk, Piotr, Feldo, Marcin, Płachno, Bartosz J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 29.04.2024
Subjects
Aldrovanda
alpha-Linolenic Acid - analysis
Aquatic plants
Carbohydrates
Chromatography
Fatty acids
Fatty Acids - analysis
Flowers & plants
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
Leaves
Lipids
Myriophyllum
Plant Oils - analysis
Plant Oils - chemistry
Plant Shoots - chemistry
Principal components analysis
Stratiotes
turions
Utricularia
Poland
Czech Republic
Myriophyllum
Utricularia
essential fatty acid
GC-MS analysis
Stratiotes
Aldrovanda
aquatic plants
turions
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Summary:Fatty acids are essential for human health. Currently, there is a search for alternative sources of fatty acids that could supplement such sources as staple crops or fishes. Turions of aquatic plants accumulate a variety of substances such as starch, free sugars, amino acids, reserve proteins and lipids. Our aim is to see if turions can be a valuable source of fatty acids. Overwintering shoots and turions of aquatic carnivorous plants were collected. The plant material was extracted with hexane. The oils were analyzed using a gas chromatograph with mass spectrometer. The dominant compound in all samples was linolenic acid. The oil content was different in turions and shoots. The oil content of the shoots was higher than that of the turions, but the proportion of fatty acids in the oils from the shoots was low in contrast to the oils from the turions. The turions of species were shown to be composed of about 50% fatty acids. The turions of species can be used to obtain oil with unsaturated fatty acids. In addition, the high fatty acid content of turions may explain their ability to survive at low temperatures.
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ISSN:1420-3049
1420-3049
DOI:10.3390/molecules29092062