Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) is a technical plant that manages to adapt very well unfriendly environments, even in polluted or poor nutrients soils and may serve the near future as an important raw material for food, chemical, pharmaceutical industries. Furthermore, growing rapidly, producing large amounts of biomass offers possibility be harvested up 2 times year, therefore pr...

This study was aimed to determine fatty acid compositions of Jerusalem artichoke herbages (Helianthus tuberosus) at five different phenological stages. harvested early vegetative, flowering, full and seed stages its herbage samples were obtained. In the herbages, saturated (∑SFA), unsaturated (∑UFA), polyunsaturated (∑PUFA), monounsaturated (MUFA), medium chain acids (∑MCFA), long (∑LCFA) very ...