A safflower seed whose oil content comprises, and/or which is capable of producing a plant which produces seed whose oil content comprises, triacylglycerols which consist of fatty acids esterified to glycerol, and wherein i) the fatty acids comprise palmitic acid and oleic acid, ii) at least 95% by weight of the oil content of the seed is TAG, iii) 90% to 95% by weight of the total fatty acids of the oil content of the seed is oleic acid, iv) less than 3.1% by weight of the total fatty acids of the oil content of the seed is palmitic acid, and v) the oil content of the seed has an oleic desaturation proportion of less than 0.037 and/or a palmitic-linoleic-oleic value of less than 0.063; wherein the safflower seed comprises a) a first exogenous polynucleotide which encodes a first silencing RNA which is capable of reducing the expression of a Δ12 desaturase gene in a developing safflower seed relative to a corresponding safflower seed lacking the first exogenous polynucleotide, and wherein the first exogenous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter which directs expression of the polynucleotide in the developing safflower seed, and b) a second exogenous polynucleotide which encodes a second silencing RNA which is capable of reducing the expression of a palmitoyl-ACP thioesterase ( FATB) gene in a developing safflower seed relative to a corresponding safflower seed lacking the second exogenous polynucleotide, and wherein the second exogenous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter which directs expression of the polynucleotide in the developing safflower seed. i) the fatty acids comprise palmitic acid and oleic acid, ii) at least 95% by weight of the oil content of the seed is TAG, iii) 90% to 95% by weight of the total fatty acids of the oil content of the seed is oleic acid, iv) less than 3.1% by weight of the total fatty acids of the oil content of the seed is palmitic acid, and v) the oil content of the seed has an oleic desaturation proportion of less than 0.037 and/or a palmitic-linoleic-oleic value of less than 0.063; wherein the safflower seed comprises a) a first exogenous polynucleotide which encodes a first silencing RNA which is capable of reducing the expression of a Δ12 desaturase gene in a developing safflower seed relative to a corresponding safflower seed lacking the first exogenous polynucleotide, and wherein the first exogenous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter which directs expression of the polynucleotide in the developing safflower seed, and b) a second exogenous polynucleotide which encodes a second silencing RNA which is capable of reducing the expression of a palmitoyl-ACP thioesterase ( FATB) gene in a developing safflower seed relative to a corresponding safflower seed lacking the second exogenous polynucleotide, and wherein the second exogenous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter which directs expression of the polynucleotide in the developing safflower seed. a) a first exogenous polynucleotide which encodes a first silencing RNA which is capable of reducing the expression of a Δ12 desaturase gene in a developing safflower seed relative to a corresponding safflower seed lacking the first exogenous polynucleotide, and wherein the first exogenous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter which directs expression of the polynucleotide in the developing safflower seed, and b) a second exogenous polynucleotide which encodes a second silencing RNA which is capable of reducing the expression of a palmitoyl-ACP thioesterase ( FATB) gene in a developing safflower seed relative to a corresponding safflower seed lacking the second exogenous polynucleotide, and wherein the second exogenous polynucleotide is operably linked to a promoter which directs expression of the polynucleotide in the developing safflower seed.