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Oil composition ofCucurbita

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Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society

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The entire range of fatty acid composition is found for seeds of self-pollinated fruit from 22 individual plants representing 17 named species ofCucurbita. It appears that some varieties merit interest as a source of drying oil and edible oils. Xerophytes that are genetically related have similar types of unsaturation and molecular-weight distribution.

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

    W. P. Bemis, J. W. Berry, M. J. Kennedy, D. Woods, M. Moran & A. J. Deutschman

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Agricultural Experiment Station No. 1204.

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Bemis, W.P., Berry, J.W., Kennedy, M.J. et al. Oil composition ofCucurbita . J Am Oil Chem Soc 44, 429–430 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02666786

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