1Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad-580 005 (Karnataka), India
Present Address Rergional Agricultural Research Station. P. B. No. 18., Bijapur-586 101 (Karnataka). India (e mail: chirenath18@gmail.com)
Online published on 19 March, 2018.
Experiments were performed on peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) to determine the correlation between the concentration of oleic acid and that of the other fatty acids by investigation of 90 peanut mutants lines of GPBD-4 In this experiment, oleic acid content was comprehensively evaluated in relation to other fatty acids. The highest correlations were noted for oleic and linoleic acids (r=-00.95) and for oleic and palmitic acids (r=-00.85). A positive relationship occurred between oleic acid and eicosenoic acid and inverse relationships occurred between oleic and behenic, arachidic, stearic, and lignoceric acids. Oleic acid positively correlated to the ratio of unsaturated to saturated fatty acids (r=0.83), whereas O/L ratio had significantly positive correlation with oleic ancid and significantly negative correlation with linoleic acid.
EMS, Fatty acids, Gamma rays, O/L ratio, U/S ratio
