GLA - Y-linolenic Acid

"There are about 10 families of higher plants containing GLA of which Onagraceae, Boraginaceae, and Saxifragaceae have some potential for use. The oil containing GLA from the seeds of Ribes sp. is used as health-care medicine in Harbin City and Changchun City. The researchers of Plant Resource Department of IAE studied the relationship between GLA in 13 species plants of currants (Ribes) and their plant taxa. The Tree Physiology Department of IAE investigated the cultivation of borage (Borago officinalis L.) which yielded about 375 kg/ha of seed containing 34% oil, of which 22% (expressed as a proportion of total fatty acids) was GLA. GLA also exists in some species of alga, fungus, bryophytes, and pteridophytes. In 1987, the Shanghai Institute of Industrial Microbiology acquired a strain of Mucorales which contains 7-9% GLA (Lin and Zhang 1994). In 1989, the Microbiology Department of IAE screened the C8761 and T8765 strains containing 12-18% and 22-24% GLA, respectively (Zhao et al. 1991)." ^{[Cheng et al.,2001]}

References

• Cheng et al.,2001 - Deng, YC., Hua, HM., Li, J. et al. Studies on the cultivation and uses of evening primrose (Oenothera spp.) in China. Econ Bot 55, 83–92 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02864548