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Non-Food Oilseed Crops: Agronomy, Production, Physiology, Phenomics and Genetics
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Non-Food Oilseed Crops: Agronomy, Production, Physiology, Phenomics and Genetics

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 8243

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Federica Zanetti

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Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Università di Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: agronomy and physiology of oilseed crops; biomass crops; natural rubber; protein crops; sustainable cropping systems; biobased products
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Dr. Christina Eynck

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Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada
Interests: early-season field phenotyping; agronomic performance; agricultural and biological sciences; sustainable oilseed crop; mustard and camelina mapping populations; biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology energy immunology and microbiology environmental science

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Oilseed crops are a valuable source of vegetable oils, which can be converted to biofuels and other biobased products through various chemical transformations. Many oilseed crops are now attracting the attention of both scientific and industrial audiences in view of their unique fatty acid compositions, new rotation options, and the ability to grow on marginal land where current staple crops are not economically viable, creating opportunities for novel industrial applications and the replacement of petrochemical feedstocks with sustainable alternatives. Non-food oilseed crops and oilseed crops with non-food applications include camelina, crambe, pennycress, carinata, Indian mustard, castor bean, safflower, cuphea, Andean lupine, hemp, oilseed rape, flax, cardoon, and others.  

This Special Issue will focus on “Non-Food Oilseed Crops: Agronomy, Production, Physiology, Phenomics, and Genetics”. We welcome novel research and reviews covering a range of topics in oilseed crops, including crop genetics and improvement, production management, biodiversity, crop physiology, phytoremediation, integration of industrial oilseed crops into food cropping systems, growing oilseed crops on marginal land, modeling, lifecycle assessment, economics and marketing, and policy.

Dr. Federica Zanetti
Dr. Christina Eynck
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Keywords

  • industrial crops
  • agronomic management
  • phytoremediation
  • plant breeding
  • genetics
  • fatty acid composition
  • green chemistry
  • sustainability
  • oleochemicals

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Correlational Analysis of Agronomic and Seed Quality Traits in Camelina sativa Doubled Haploid Lines under Rain-Fed Condition
by Jahad Soorni, Zahra-Sadat Shobbar, Danial Kahrizi, Federica Zanetti, Kaveh Sadeghi, Sara Rostampour, Péter Gergő Kovács, Attila Kiss and Iman Mirmazloum
Agronomy 2022, 12(2), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020359 - 31 Jan 2022
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Camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz) is an emerging industrial crop from the Brassicaceae family, with its seed oil and cake being used for food, feed, and fuel applications. In this study, the relationships between economically important agronomic traits including seed yield (SY), [...] Read more.
Camelina (Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz) is an emerging industrial crop from the Brassicaceae family, with its seed oil and cake being used for food, feed, and fuel applications. In this study, the relationships between economically important agronomic traits including seed yield (SY), days to maturity (DM), 1000-seed weight (TSW), seed protein content (PC), seed oil content (OC), and fatty acid composition in 136 doubled haploid (DH) camelina lines were investigated under rain-fed conditions in two consecutive years. There was prominent diversity among the studied DH lines for the agronomic traits such as seed yield, erucic acid, omega3, protein content, etc. Based on the Pearson correlation analysis of the data, SY was positively correlated with DM and OC, and negatively correlated with TSW, PC, and linolenic acid (C18:3) content. The positive relationships of the main characteristics, relevant to industrial applications, suggest the feasibility of developing new higher-yielding camelina cultivars with high seed oil content. The high seed yield of some camelina lines (DH044 and DH075) during the two growing seasons showed the potential of the lines. On the other hand, the contrasting genotypes for key traits in this study promised a favorable source to develop the superior breeding lines with higher seed yield and food/nonfood traits. Therefore, it can be concluded that the diversity of camelina DH lines traits is crucial for developing new cultivars. Furthermore, the present study reports some significant correlations among the DH lines, which may be useful for the current and future camelina breeding program. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Food Oilseed Crops: Agronomy, Production, Physiology, Phenomics and Genetics)
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Assessment of the Working Performance of an Innovative Prototype to Harvest Hemp Seed in Two Different Conditions of Terrain Slope
by Przemysław Baraniecki, Francesco Latterini, Walter Stefanoni, Jakub Frankowski, Katarzyna Wielgusz and Luigi Pari
Agronomy 2022, 12(1), 185; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12010185 - 12 Jan 2022
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After many decades when its cultivation was prohibited, hemp is regaining its position as one of the most versatile cultivated crops. Multiplication of monoecious hemp varieties requires manual male plants rouging to keep a high share of monoecious plants in the population. It [...] Read more.
After many decades when its cultivation was prohibited, hemp is regaining its position as one of the most versatile cultivated crops. Multiplication of monoecious hemp varieties requires manual male plants rouging to keep a high share of monoecious plants in the population. It forces relatively small multiplication fields usually oscillating around 5 ha, where the use of big harvesting machines is not economically feasible. The B-800 mower prototype for hemp panicles proved to be a good alternative to harvest seeds of tall fibrous hemp. The test results of the mower analyzed in this study show that although seed loss on a moderate slope (0.37%) was significantly higher than on a flat slope (0.13%), it was still much lower than in the case of harvesting hemp seed with a combined harvester. Moreover, the field efficiency of 93% is very satisfactory as it is reported for much bigger machines. Finally, the harvesting costs proved to be much lower than most of the machines used for harvesting hemp seed. Full article
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Effectiveness of Three Terminating Products on Reducing the Residual Moisture in Dwarf Castor Plants: A Preliminary Study of Direct Mechanical Harvesting in Central Greece
by Francesco Latterini, Walter Stefanoni, Chris Cavalaris, Christos Karamoutis, Luigi Pari and Efthymia Alexopoulou
Agronomy 2022, 12(1), 146; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12010146 - 8 Jan 2022
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The contribution of castor oil for reaching the targets set by RED1 and RED2 in Europe can be tangible if the problem related to the mechanical harvesting is overcome. Dwarf hybrids suitable for mechanical harvesting are already available on the market but the [...] Read more.
The contribution of castor oil for reaching the targets set by RED1 and RED2 in Europe can be tangible if the problem related to the mechanical harvesting is overcome. Dwarf hybrids suitable for mechanical harvesting are already available on the market but the residual moisture of plants and capsules has to be lowered in order to allow mechanization. In the present case of study, three common terminating products (Glyphosate GLY, Diquat DIQ and Spotlight DEF) were tested on Kaiima C1012 hybrid in a complete randomized block design to assess the effectiveness of using chemical products to decrease residual moisture in castor plants. Plants were harvested via combine harvester equipped with cereal header to evaluate seed loss (due to dehiscence, impact and cleaning shoe) and the dehulling capacity of the combine harvester’s cleaning shoe. DIQ decreased significantly moisture content of capsules (7.32%) in comparison to the other treatments, while the lowest plant moisture was recorded in DIQ (62.38%) and GLY (59.12%). The use of DIQ triggered the highest impact seed loss (61.75%) in comparison with GLY (46.50%) and DEF (29.02%). Control plants could not be harvested mechanically due to the high residual moisture content and high density of weeds. The present case of study provides highlights regarding the need to further investigate the best practice to terminate castor plants and to develop a specific combine header to reduce seed loss from impact. Full article
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