Designer Oil Crops
Published on 30. November 1993
Book
Hardback
XVI, 320 pages
978-3-527-30040-2 (ISBN)
Description
The main theme of this monograph is the improvement of oil crops by means of modern genetic and biotechnological techniques. The intended changes are aiming at a greater range of end uses for the consumer: food and non-food uses (such as plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, detergents). It provides information about the questions concerning the release of genetically engineered oil crops and their use in human foodstuffs.
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Content
The Major Oil Crops; Non-Food Uses of Vegetable Oils and Fatty Acids; Breeding Oil; Crops; Biochemistry of Oil Synthesis; Transformation of Oil Crops; Biotechnology of Oil Crops; Processing of Novel Oil Crops and Seed Oils; Release of Transgenic Oil Crops; Future Prospects for Oil Crops.