Table I. Fatty acid composition (w/w) of the developing endosperm, embryo, and mesocarp of oil palm (DAP). The significance of the effect of the developmental stage was tested by ANOVA (F and P values; *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001).

Tissue	DAP	C8:0	C10:0	C12:0	C14:0	C16:0	C18:0	C18:1ω9	C18:1ω7	C18:2	C18:3	Others
Endosperm	70	2.7	2.3	32.9	11.3	9.6	2.6	30.3	0.3	7.4	0.0	0.4
	100	4.7	4.3	54.3	14.7	6.3	1.7	11.4	0.1	2.5	0.0	0.2
	120	4.8	4.3	53.9	15.6	6.7	1.7	10.8	0.1	1.9	0.0	0.2
	140	4.9	4.2	51.3	16.2	7.7	2.1	11.4	0.1	2.0	0.0	0.2
	160	4.1	3.7	49.0	16.1	8.2	2.3	13.9	0.1	2.3	0.0	0.2
	F	10.5	7.9	20.3	32.0	6.4	4.6	47.7	93.0	89.0
	P	0.001	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.008	0.023	0.000	0.000	0.000
		**	**	***	***	**	*	***	***	***
Embryo	85	0.1	0.1	2.1	1.2	27.0	3.9	29.5	5.6	28.8	0.1	1.6
	100	0.4	0.3	3.4	1.5	24.9	3.8	35.3	5.1	23.9	0.1	1.4
	120	0.4	0.3	5.7	3.1	23.3	4.8	34.7	4.8	21.3	0.1	1.3
	140	0.4	0.3	5.8	3.1	23.7	4.1	34.8	5.0	21.5	0.1	1.2
	160	0.2	0.2	4.2	2.3	24.7	4.2	37.1	4.4	21.2	0.1	1.4
	F	2.7	2.8	2.6	3.6	6.4	2.0	4.7	1.2	25.4	0.8
	P	0.084	0.080	0.096	0.041	0.006	0.159	0.018	0.347	0.000	0.552
					*	**		*		***
Mesocarp	70	0.1	0.2	1.2	1.7	36.6	4.2	14.5	0.6	26.0	12.5	2.6
	100	0.2	0.3	2.4	2.1	34.2	3.5	16.4	0.8	26.6	10.9	2.7
	120	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.9	45.5	4.3	36.7	0.7	10.5	0.6	0.7
	140	0.0	0.0	0.2	1.7	42.3	6.7	39.6	0.4	8.0	0.4	0.8
	160	0.0	0.0	0.1	1.7	42.0	7.1	39.2	0.4	8.4	0.3	0.8
	F	3.7	5.7	3.8	3.4	51.4	97.7	334.8	29.3	534.5	1037.0
	P	0.049	0.015	0.045	0.057	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
		*	*	*		***	***	***	***	***	***