Proteomic analysis of near-isogenic sunflower varieties differing in seed oil traits.

Near-isogenic sunflower lines containing 25% (inbred RHA280) and 48% (RHA801) oil by seed dry mass were comparatively analyzed in biological triplicate at 18 days after flowering using two-dimensional (both pI 3-10 and 4-7) Difference Gel Electrophoresis. Additionally, two inbred lines varying in oleic acid content, HA89 (18% oleic) and HA341 (89% oleic), were also analyzed in the same manner. Statistical analyses of these sunflower lines was performed beginning with fitting a mixed effects linear model to the log-transformed optical volume of each spot to account for gel variation, followed by testing the significance between varieties for mean transformed optical spot volumes.