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INSIGHTS INTO BREEDING FOR HIGH OLEIC SUNFLOWER OIL IN EUROPE
A. В. Мельник, J. Akuaku, О. В. Макарчук

Last modified: 2017-04-24

Abstract


A recent USDA report in 2015 suggest that, Ukraine presently (2014−2015) ranks first in sunflower production globally with an output of 10,20 million tons while Russia and the European Union (EU) are together currently ranked second, as they each produced 8,93 million tons of current total world sunflower output of 40,33 million tons.  Sunflower is an industrial crop that is primarily cultivated for oil, and for an extensive period, research hugely focused on increase and expression of genetic potential for high seed yield and oil content in seed of novel hybrids. Only in the last four decades were scientist compelled to tackle oil quality as one of the key challenges in the vegetable oil market. The primary defining parameter in oil quality is fatty acid composition, configuration of fatty acid models in the triglyceride molecule, and overall content and profile of numerous polyisoprenoid lipids that exist in the oil, typically tocopherols and sterols (Fernandez-Martinez J. M. et al., 2009).


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