TY - JOUR
T1 - Oil crops for the future
AU - Ortiz, Rodomiro
AU - Geleta, Mulatu
AU - Gustafsson, Cecilia
AU - Lager, Ida
AU - Hofvander, Per
AU - Löfstedt, Christer
AU - Cahoon, Edgar B.
AU - Minina, Elena
AU - Bozhkov, Peter
AU - Stymne, Sten
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078126922&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.pbi.2019.12.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31982290
AN - SCOPUS:85078126922
SN - 1369-5266
VL - 56
SP - 181
EP - 189
JO - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
ER -
