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Improving the fatty acid composition of soybean oil

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Efforts to improve the composition of soybean oil by breeding the beans for low linolenic acid in the oil have continued since 1968. This paper reports recent work using hybrid crosses and induced mutations. No lines are yet available that contain oil having less than 3% linolenic acid.

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  1. Department of Food Technology and Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, IA

    E. G. Hammond & W. R. Fehr

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  1. E. G. Hammond
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Journal Paper No. J-11466 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, Project No. 2475.

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Hammond, E.G., Fehr, W.R. Improving the fatty acid composition of soybean oil. J Am Oil Chem Soc 61, 1713–1716 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02582133

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