tobacco (nicotiana tabacum l.) is an important industrial crop and its seeds contain significant amounts of oil. the extraction of oil components using solvent at high pressure, or supercritical fluid (scf), has received much attention. in the present study, statistical analyses showed that the average extraction yield of seed oil of five tobacco varieties using sfe was 9.33%, which was higher ...

INTRODUCTION Recent decades have witnessed an increase in the rate of desertification of agricultural lands. More than one-third of our planet’s land is now arid. Water for crops and an increasing human population is rapidly becoming a critically short commodity. Yet none of the major crop plants of the world is well adapted to arid lands. Efforts have been made to introduce new crops, which ar...

Sustainable agricultural production is a paramount goal of many developing countries in order to ensure that foods required for the growing population are available in the right quantity and quality. This paper evaluated the extent of sustainability of the Nigerian crop production sector using secondary data from the FAO statistical database. Inferences of sustainability was made with contingen...

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Soybean is the most produced and consumed oil seed crop worldwide. In 2013, 226 million metric tons were produced in over 70 countries. Organically produced soybean represents less than 0.1% of total world production. In the USA, the certified organic soybean crop was grown on 53 thousand ha or 0.17% of the total soybean acreage in the USA (32 million ha) in 2011. A gradual increase in producti...

In addition to the primary use of canola in oil pressing, canola is important as a feed supplement for livestock. We have developed a new approach (termed PiggyBackTM expression) that can be used to enhance the histidine content of canola protein. Using PiggyBackTM expression (a novel recombinant approach for generically improving the amino acid composition in crop plants) the histidine content...

Recent energy security strategies, investment opportunities and energy policies have led to an escalation in biofuel consumption at the expenses of food crops and pastureland. To evaluate the important impacts of biofuels on food security, the food-energy nexus needs to be investigated in the context of its linkages with the overall human appropriation of land and water resources. Here we provi...