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Increasing Castor Seed Oil Content and Seed Weight Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technology and Recurrent Selection

  • Open or CloseGrace QC*

    Department of Agriculture, Western Regional Research Center, USA

    *Corresponding author:Department of Agriculture, Western Regional Research Center, USA

Submission: November 06, 2019;Published: November 12, 2019

Abstract

Seed oil of castor bean (Ricinus communis) contains 90% ricin oleic acid which has numerous industrial uses. Increasing seed oil content and seed weight contribute to oil yield and make castor crop production more cost competitive. This review describes an effective procedure that allows to develop a new castor cultivar with increased seed oil content and weight through recurrent selection of high oil content seeds using nuclear magnetic resonance technology.

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