Unusual fatty acids from Crotalaria striata Syn. Crotalaria mucronata seed oil

Fatty Acid Profiles of Some Fabaceae Seed Oils

“…As the data in Table 1 indicate the most prior reports available concern Clitoria ternatea and Senna alata and for one of the seed oils, Macroptilium lathyroides, no previous data on its fatty acid profile is available to the best of our knowledge. The data in Table 1 show that the most commonly identified fatty acids in these oils are palmitic, oleic, and linoleic with usually lesser amounts of stearic acid and linolenic acid, with the exception of linolenic acid in Centrosema pubescens [6] and Crotalaria mucronata [32] in one of two reports. Only a few reports indicate the presence of fatty acids with 20 carbon atoms, mostly for Senna alata, and even less indicate the fatty acids beyond 20 carbon atoms, all of these for Senna alata.…”

“…Some of these plants, such as Centrosema pubescens and Crotalaria mucronata, are considered weeds while others, such as Clitoria ternatea for its blue flowers and Pachyrhizus erosus for edible pods, are cultivated. Table 1 contains information from the previous literature [6,7,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] that include data on the fatty acid profiles of the species studied here. As the data in Table 1 indicate the most prior reports available concern Clitoria ternatea and Senna alata and for one of the seed oils, Macroptilium lathyroides, no previous data on its fatty acid profile is available to the best of our knowledge.…”

Lipídios, carboidratos e proteínas de sementes de leguminosas do Cerrado

“…Nesse mesmo estudo, o autor observou o predomínio sistemático de ácido palmítico nas espécies de Caesalpinioideae, Papilionoideae e Mimosoideae, revelando a tendência muito comum de maior incidência de ácidos graxos de cadeias mais curtas e saturadas em espécies do cerrado. Mais recentemente, ácidos graxos incomuns têm sido encontrados em espécies de leguminosas, como o ácido coronárico e ácidos graxos ciclopropênicos em sementes de Acacia arabica da Índia , ácidos vernólico, malválico e estercúlico em Cassia marginata e C.corymbosa (Hosamani & Sattigeri, 2002) e ácidos ricinoléico, malválico e estercúlico em Crotalaria striata (Hosamani & Ramesh, 2001).…”