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Hundreds of fatty acids synthesized by thousands
of plants and their phylogenetic relationships
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Phylogenetic distribution of Octanoic Acid

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Family level distribution of Octanoic Acid

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Species level distribution of Octanoic Acid

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Phylogeny

Explore relationships between unusual FA structures and plants that produce them.

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Fatty Acids

Structure images and info for >400 FA. Click Name to see species that produce a FA, publications, and data. Click 'Tree' to display phylogentic distribution of a FA

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FA analysis for > 7000 plants. Click on species for graphs of FA composition, oil content, and links to publications and individual data sets.

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Publication:   Ohlrogge, J., Thrower, N., Mhaske, V., Stymne, S., Baxter, M., Yang, W., Liu, J., Shaw, K., Shorrosh, B., Zhang, M., Wilkerson, C. and Matthäus, B. (2018), PlantFAdb: a resource for exploring hundreds of plant fatty acid structures synthesized by thousands of plants and their phylogenetic relationships. Plant J, 96: 1299-1308. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14102


PlantFAdb Key Features  

Phylogenetic Trees 

    The initial Tree page http://plantfadb.org/tree presents the number of FA composition datapoints that are associated with ALL publications in PlantFAdb.  Click on a node to move to Family, Genus and species. 

     The occurrence of a fatty acid structure in different plant species is displayed on a phylogenetic tree.  The abundance (e.g. wt %) is indicated on the axis.  

         Example:   Ricinoleic :   http://plantfadb.org/tree?measure_id=10274

Compiled analytical data      Example:   Sesamum indicum : http://plantfadb.org/plants/10019

        Fatty acid compositions and other acyl lipid parameters for each plant species have been compiled from multiple publications on a single page in graphical form. 

Contributors to PlantFAdb

John Ohlrogge, Nick Thrower, Curtis Wilkerson, Melissa Baxter,  Weili Yang,  Kate McGlew,  Jinjie Liu,  Devin Higgins,  at  Michigan State University, USA
Bertrand Matthaus at Max Rubner-Institut, Detmold, Germany
Meng Zhang, Xiaojun Cheng and Changsheng Li  at   Northwest A&F University,  Shaanxi, China  
Vandana Mhaske, Independent Biotechnology Professional, Pune, India
Basil Shorrosh, Biotechnology Professional, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Ajay W Tumaney at  CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute,   Mysore, India  

PlantFAdb (previously PhyloFAdb) provides updates and enhancements to the Seed Oil Fatty Acid (SOFA) database at the Max Rubner-Institute (http://sofa.mri.bund.de/).

Matthäus, B. (2012), The new database Seed Oil Fatty Acids (SOFA). Lipid Technology, 24: 230–234.

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This database is based on the Seed Oil Fatty Acid (SOFA) database at the Max Rubner-Institute (http://sofa.mri.bund.de)
  • Matthäus, B. (2012), The new database Seed Oil Fatty Acids (SOFA). Lipid Technology, 24: 230–234.
  • Aitzetmüller, K., Matthäus, B. and Friedrich, H. (2003), A new database for seed oil fatty acids — the database SOFA. Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol., 105: 92–103.

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    This database has been developed with support from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (http://glbrc.org)
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