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, StenAbstract
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 Biology2020, 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
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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/103940