Oil Crops for the Future

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

SLU Authors

• Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hofvander, Per

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Dida, Mulatu Geleta

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hammenhag, Cecilia

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Lager, Ida

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Minina, Alyona

  • Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bozhkov, Peter

  • Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Stymne, Sten

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG12 Responsible consumption and production

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Biotechnology
Plant Biotechnology
Genetics and Breeding in Agricultural Sciences

Publication identifier

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

Permanent link to this page (URI)

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