a crystalline fatty acid derived from the oils of rapeseed, mustard seed, and wallflower seed
erucic acid in American English
(iˈruːsɪk)
noun
Chemistry
a solid fatty acid, a homologue of oleic acid, derived from oils of mustard seed and rapeseed
Word origin
[1865–70; ‹ NL Eruc(a) the rocket genus (L ērūca; cf. rocket2) + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dunk, figure skating, maverick, racism, tick-tack-toe-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'erucic acid' in a sentence
erucic acid
Most of them also contained no erucic acid.
Into Laakso 1986, 'An analytical and breeding study on fatty acids in summer turnip rape (brassica campestrisL. var. annua)', Agricultural and Food Sciencehttps://journal.fi/afs/article/view/72224. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In high-erucic-acid rapeseed oil, however, oleic acid was enriched at the sn-1/3.
Mei Guan, Hong Chen, Xinghua Xiong, Xin Lu, Xun Li, Fenghong Huang, Chunyun Guan 2016, 'A Study on Triacylglycerol Composition and the Structure of High-Oleic Rapeseed Oil',Engineeringhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809916309523. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Furthermore, a positive association with stearic and erucic acid was found.
Samia Hadj Ahmed, Nadia Kaoubaa, Wafa Kharroubi, Amira Zarrouk, Mohamed Fadhel Najjar,Fathi Batbout, Habib Gamra, Gerard Lizard, Mohamed Hammami 2017, 'Association of plasma fatty acid alteration with the severity of coronary artery diseaselesions in Tunisian patients', Lipids in Health and Diseasehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12944-017-0538-y. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, the seed also contains harmful substances: glucosinolates, erucic acid, phytate and tannin.
Kokić Bojana, Palić Dragan 2012, 'Glucosinolates in rapeseed as antinutritive factors in animal nutrition', Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvohttp://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1821-3944/2012/1821-39441201113K.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We used phenotypic data for seed oil, protein, erucic acid, linolenic acid, stearic acid, and glucosinolate content.
Jun Zou, Yusheng Zhao, Peifa Liu, Lei Shi, Xiaohua Wang, Meng Wang, Jinling Meng,Jochen Christoph Reif 2016, 'Seed Quality Traits Can Be Predicted with High Accuracy in Brassica napus Using GenomicData.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5120799?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Double-low rapeseed cultivars that produce no erucic acid and have only a small amount of glucosinolates are widely used.
Satoko Yasumoto, Kanako Suzuki, Morio Matsuzaki, Shuntaro Hiradate, Kenji Oose, HisakoHirokane, Kensuke Okada 2011, 'Effects of Plant Residue, Root Exudate and Juvenile Plants of Rapeseed (Brassica napusL.) on the Germination, Growth, Yield, and Quality of Subsequent Crops in Successiveand Rotational Cropping Systems', Plant Production Sciencehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1626/pps.14.339. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
High content of erucic acid in nasturtium seeds makes it possible to use its oil as treatment in adrenoleukodystrophy.
Karolina Jakubczyk, Katarzyna Janda, Katarzyna Watychowicz, Jagoda Łukasiak, JolantaWolska 2018, 'Garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.) - a source of mineral elements and bioactivecompounds', Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higienyhttp://wydawnictwa.pzh.gov.pl/roczniki_pzh/pobierz-artykul?id=1229. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The parental lines of the mapping populations contained wide variation in oil content and erucic acid content.
Kadambini Rout, Bal Govind Yadav, Satish Kumar Yadava, Arundhati Mukhopadhyay, VibhaGupta, Deepak Pental, Akshay K. Pradhan, Akshay K. Pradhan 2018, 'QTL Landscape for Oil Content in Brassica juncea: Analysis in Multiple Bi-ParentalPopulations in High and “0” Erucic Background', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2018.01448/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)