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Fatty Acid Composition of Seed Oil of Wild Species of Linum¹

Fatty acid composition of seed oil of 34 wild species of flax was determined. The same fatty acids were present in these species as in cultivated flax. Variability in their relative proportions, however, was greater among wild species than among 266 lines of cultivated flax analyzed. In general wild species had a high linolenic acid content. A few species, however, had high linoleic and low linolenic acid content.

² Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of California, Riverside; Research Agronomist, USDA, Southwestern Irrigation Field Station, Brawley, Calif.; graduate student and Research Chemist, Department of Agronomy, University of California, Riverside, respectively. The authors wish to thank Dr. A. G. Plessers, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, for many of the initial seed samples of Linum species.

Received for publication April 21, 1965.