We have investigated the fatty acid composition of rapeseed oil of varidus cultivars (LEE et al. 1974 a) and tried to introduce zero erucic acid genes, el and e2, into Japanese rape varieties (LEE et al. 1974 b). Through these experiments we got various correla-tion coefficients of the major component fatty acids, i. e. oleic, Iinoleic, Iinolenic, eicosonoic and erucic acids. Although oleic and erucic always showed highly negative correlation there were some discrepancies in other correlation coefficients between the pairs of fatty acids so far published (Table 1). 1) Between oleic and linoleic we got positive or no correlation while the others were negative. 2) Between oleic and linolenic our correlation coefficient varied from positive to negetive while the others were negative. 3) Between oleic and eicosenoic, and eicoslnoic and erucic, the correlation coefiicients varied from positive to negative both in ours and in others. To explain these discrepancies, original data (LEE, et al. 1974 b) were discriminated by E'
1 and E'
2 geno-types each other, and the corirelation coefiicients of them were calculated separately as showen in Table 2. For easier understanding we expreessed the interrelationships between fatty acids of different genotype in F
2 Segregants in Figures 1 to 7 discrim-inately.
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