Bazı Yağ Bitkilerinin Yağ Oranları ve Yağ Asit Kompozisyonlarının Karşılaştırılması.

This research was carried out in Samsun ecological conditions to determine the limits of change in oil content and fatty acid composition of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) and camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz.] plants, which are considered as oil plants. As a result of the research, it was determined that the variation in oil content was 6.86%, 4.30% and 3.07% in safflower, flax and camelina, respectively. The variation in palmitic and stearic acids, which are among the saturated fatty acids, was determined as 2.01%, 1.2%, 0.97% and 0.82%, 0.40% and 0.05% in safflower, flax and camelina, respectively. The variation in unsaturated fatty acids oleic, linoleic and linolenic acid was found to be 1.69%, 4.00%, 1.14%; 5.50%, 20.10%, 1.98% and 3.45%, 20.70%, 2.53% in safflower, flax and camelina, respectively. The variation in eicosenoic acid found in safflower and camelina, one of the unsaturated fatty acids, was determined as 0.20% and 1.34%, respectively, and the variation in erucic unsaturated fatty acid found only in camelina was figured out as 0.22%. As a result, it may be more advantageous to use the flax plant, which has a more limited saturated fatty acid composition and a wider variation in unsaturated fatty acid composition than other species, in breeding programs to develop new varieties with desired oil composition due to this genetic background. In addition, in terms of their unsaturated fatty acid compositions, it was determined that all three plant species could be an alternative source of biodiesel. The findings also show that safflower is a source of Omega-6 (80.93%), linseed is a source of Omega-3 (49.50%) and camelina is a potential alternative energy plant as well as a plant species that can be evaluated for medicinal purposes due to its high eicosenoic acid content (16.51%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]