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Review article - Peer-reviewed, 2020

Oil Crops for the Future

Ortiz, Rodomiro; Geleta, Mulatu Dida; Gustafsson, Cecilia; Lager, Ida; Hofvander, Per; Löfstedt, Christer; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Minina, Elena A.; Bozhkov, Peter; Stymne, Sten

Abstract

Agriculture faces enormous challenges including the need to substantially increase productivity, reduce environmental footprint, and deliver renewable alternatives that are being addressed by developing new oil crops for the future. The efforts include domestication of Lepidium spp. using genomics-aided breeding as a cold hardy perennial high-yielding oil crop that provides substantial environmental benefits, expands the geography for oil crops, and improves farmers' economy. In addition, genetic engineering in Crambe abyssinica may lead to a dedicated industrial oil crop to replace fossil oil. Redirection of photosynthates from starch to oil in plant tubers and cereal endosperm also provides a path for enhancing oil production to meet the growing demands for food, fuel, and biomaterials. Insect pheromone components are produced in seed oil plants in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly pest management replacing synthetically produced pheromones. Autophagy is explored for increasing crop fitness and oil accumulation using genetic engineering in Arabidopsis.

Published in

Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2020, volume: 56, pages: 181-189

Authors' information

Ortiz, Rodomiro (Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding
Geleta, Mulatu Dida (Dida, Mulatu Geleta)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding
Gustafsson, Cecilia (Hammenhag, Cecilia)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding
Löfstedt, Christer
Lund University
Cahoon, Edgar B.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Minina, Elena A. (Minina, Alyona)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Molecular Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Molecular Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Breeding

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG12 Responsible consumption and production

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Biotechnology
Plant Biotechnology
Genetics and Breeding

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2019.12.003

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/103940