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Fatty acid composition of soybean oil of 18 currently important varieties from 43 locations in 16 states of the United States ranged from about 5% to 11% in linolenic, 43% to 56% in linoleic, 15% to 33% in oleic, and 11% to 26% in saturated acids. Oil of all 18 varieties had wide ranges in composition at different locations in two crop years. Within each group varieties tended to maintain the same relative order of fatty acid compositions of oil at all locations in the two years of this study.
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Publication No. 326 of the U. S. Regional Soybean Laboratory, Urbana, Ill.
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Collins, F.I., Sedgwick, V.E. Fatty acid composition of several varieties of soybeans. J Am Oil Chem Soc 36, 641–644 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02640276
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02640276