Low saturated-fat sunflower and associated methods
View Patent ↗Provided are sunflowers, parts thereof, cultures of, and seeds that are capable of producing sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat as well as associated methods.
1. A vegetable oil obtained from seeds of a sunflower cultivar that has been genetically modified by plant breeding, wherein the oil has a fatty acid profile comprising 3% or less total combined palmitic acid (16:0) and stearic acid (18:0) content, wherein the fatty acid profile comprising 3% or less total combined palmitic acid (16:0) and stearic acid (18:0) content is stabilized in seed oil of the sunflower cultivar, and wherein the genome of the sunflower cultivar and seed oil obtained thereof comprises the polynucleotide of SEQ ID NO: 13, wherein the nucleotide at position 60 of the polynucleotide is a cytosine (C), the nucleotide at position 181 of the polynucleotide is a guanine (G), the nucleotide at position 258 of the polynucleotide is a cytosine (C), and the nucleotide at position 261 of the polynucleotide is a thymine (T).