Valuable fatty acids in bryophytes—production, biosynthesis, analysis and applications

Yi Lu; Finnur Freyr Eiriksson; Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir; Henrik Toft Simonsen

doi:10.3390/plants8110524

Valuable fatty acids in bryophytes—production, biosynthesis, analysis and applications

Yi Lu, Finnur Freyr Eiriksson, Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir, Henrik Toft Simonsen^*

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Abstract

Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts) often produce high amounts of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (vl-PUFAs) including arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4 Δ5,8,11,14) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5 Δ5,8,11,14,17). The presence of vl-PUFAs is common for marine organisms such as algae, but rarely found in higher plants. This could indicate that bryophytes did not lose their marine origin completely when they landed into the non-aqueous environment. Vl-PUFA, especially the omega-3 fatty acid EPA, is essential in human diet for its benefits on healthy brain development and inflammation modulation. Recent studies are committed to finding new sources of vl-PUFAs instead of fish and algae oil. In this review, we summarize the fatty acid compositions and contents in the previous studies, as well as the approaches for qualification and quantification. We also conclude different approaches to enhance AA and EPA productions including biotic and abiotic stresses.

Original language	English
Article number	524
Journal	Plants
Volume	8
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/plants8110524
Publication status	Published - Nov 2019

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This study is funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks under European Union Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No. 765115?MossTech.

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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Arachidonic acid
Bryophytes
Eicosapentaenoic acid
Environmental stress
Polyunsaturated fatty acid

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