Its ability to survive in a diverse range of habitats enables it to be introduced fairly easily into new environments. Natural sources such as sativa deliver superior quality of camelina oil obtainable. Crantz is a reemergent oilseed crop that is also becoming important as a model for applied projects based on studies in arabidopsis thaliana, since the two species. Overexpression of atpap2 in camelina sativa leads to faster. The seeds of camelina sativa have high percentage of essential fatty acids. Crantz seeds and oil composition could be expected between cropping year, sowing time, cultivar and genetic x environments. A more recent study at the university of minnesota puts yields at 600 to 1,700 kgha range at. Renewed interest in camelina sativa is primarily due to the unique fatty acid.
Nowadays, manual ram press or engine driven screw are the most frequently used atabani et al. Camelina sativa can prosper in many different climates and soils. The oil is suitable for a variety of food uses and for biodiesel production. Camelina sativa is a flowering plant in the brassicaceae family and typically known as camelina.
Agronomic and seed quality evaluation of camelina sativa in. Camelina sativa camelina is a spring annual oilseed plant of the genus cruciferae that grows well in temperate climates, and matures earlier than other oilseed crops. Camelina sativa emerged from this trial as a promising oilseed crop for production. Pdf camelina sativa is a rediscovered crop with multiple uses. Camelina was grown and consumed in europe until the 1940s when higher yielding crops became more available. Crantz is an accepted name this name is the accepted name of a species in the genus camelina family brassicaceae. Camelina has been developed as a crop due to its high oil content, 3040%, and unique oil properties. Camelina has many positive attributes that make it unique among oil seed crops, which is the primary reason it has generated much excitement. Camelina sativa is an oil seeded plant belonging to the brassicaceae family. Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles. Growing camelina sativa as a biofuel kenan fellows program. Rainer hofer editor sustainable solutions for modern economies, p.
It produces an oil with potential as a lowinput biofuels feedstock and which is known to have high levels of fatty acids beneficial for humans. Evaluation of camelina sativa oil as a feedstock for. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. A comparative study of camelina, canola and hemp seed processing and products viive sarv master of applied science department of chemical engineering and applied chemistry university of toronto 2017 abstract processes for the production of protein isolates from camelina sativa and cannabis. Camelina sativa emerged from this trial as a promising oilseed crop for production across montana and the northern great plains. This page was last edited on 7 february 2020, at 15. Camelina plant description camelina is a shortseason crop 85100 days that is well adapted to production in the temperate climatic zone. The oil is composed of six percent saturated fatty acids, 30 percent monosaturated fatty acids and 64 percent polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Here we generate the first chromosomescale highquality reference. Compounds in camelina sativa from seeds to pomace and oil. Crantz, a member of the brassicaceae family, has gained tremendous attention as a reemerging oil seed crop. The seed of camelina can contain more than 40 % oil. Apr 23, 2014 camelina sativa is an oilseed with desirable agronomic and oilquality attributes for a viable industrial oil platform crop. Camelina oil is extracted from the camelina sativa oilseed. Further economic importance includes its potential as a petroleum substitutealcohol. Camelina sativa is an annual in the mustard family and attains heights of 1 to 3 feet. Aug 04, 2014 a biochemist is improving biofuels with a promising crop. Fossil fuels such as petroleum and oil have been used as an energy source since the industrial revolution began in england in the 1700s.
Camelina originated in northern europe but is now distributed across most of the united states and canada. Camelina camelina sativa, a member of the mustard family, is best adapted to cooler climates and can be grown in the. Frohlich crops research centre, oak park, carlow teagasc acknowledges with gratitude the support of the european union structural funds eaggf in the financing of this research project. It belongs to brassicaceae or cruciferous family with more than 300 genus of plants like rape, canola and mustard and almost 4000 species distributed all over the world. Crantz is an oilseed known for its potential as a lowinput biofuel feedstock and its high levels of beneficial fatty acids. Transformation of the oilseed crop camelina sativa by. It germinates at low temperature, and seedlings are very frost tolerant. Wood was becoming scarce and a new way to make energy was needed.
Camelina sativa was not always the highest yielding oilseed crop but it was the most economical crop to. Crantz is an important brassicaceae oil crop with a number. It is considered a common weed in many areas, but other areas embrace it for the use of its oils as a food, fuel or for its possible medicinal value. The plants database includes the following 2 subspecies of camelina sativa. Crantz is a reemergent oilseed crop that is also becoming important as a model for applied projects based on studies in. Crantz camelina is an oilseed crop, useful for both. The emerging biofuel crop camelina sativa retains a highly. No seedling damage has been seen at temperatures as low as 12 f in montana. Moreover, we deeply analysis camelina seed metabolic engineering strategy and. Camelina sativa camelina seed yields per hectareacre data on crop production is still somewhat limited since the usda did not start data collection until 2007. The research may help boost rural economies and provide farmers with a valueadded product. Yield and seed composition of 10 spring camelina genotypes. It is excellent for all types of sensitive skin cares. Prior to commercial production, information on their breeding and pollination system is essential to ensure sustainable management.
Crantz is an annual or winter annual in the brassicacea, or mustard family. Before requesting germplasm, scientists should consider their capacity to receive it. Dec 14, 2015 youve heard of olive oil and coconut oil, but have you ever heard of camelina sativa seed oil. Under controlled environmental conditions, overexpression of atpap2 in camelina sativa resulted in longer hypocotyls, earlier flowering, faster growth rate, higher photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance, increased seed yield and seed size in comparison with the wildtype line and nulllines. Continental airlines, was the first commercial airline to test a 50. Production systems, prospects and challenges in the usa great plains volume 2 issue 2 2015 augustine k obour1, henry y sintim2, eric obeng1 and valtcho d jeliazkov zheljazkov3 1agricultural research center hays, kansas state university, usa 2department of plant sciences, university of wyoming, usa. Camelina used to build better biofuel sciencedaily. Camelina oil has been used for centuries for medicinal purposes, for food and for lamp oil during the bronze age and is native from finland to romania and east to the ural mountains. Camelina sativa is a flowering plant in the family brassicaceae and is usually known in english as camelina, goldofpleasure, or false flax, also occasionally wild flax, linseed dodder, german sesame, and siberian oilseed. The customary winnowing of flax seeds selects forms of c. Our values for fatty acid composition of camelina sativa are generally similar to those reported for camelina rumelica umarov et al. Crantz is an emerging low input, stress tolerant crop with seed oil composition suitable for biofuel and bioproduct production. Thus even before the copenhagen summit on climate change was held during december 2009, the participating world countries had already started fixing the. Metabolic engineering a model oilseed camelina sativa.
Camelina is an oleaginous plant known since the bronze age. Before requesting germplasm, scientists should consider their capacity to. Camelina camelina sativa also called false flax, is a herbaceous plant of the cruciferaceae family. Camelina has just recently been introduced to montana. Pdf agronomy of camelina sativa and brassica carinata. Hosted by the usgs core science analytics and synthesis. Since then we have become heavily reliant on these nonrenewable resources to. Camelina sativa is an oilseed with desirable agronomic and oilquality attributes for a viable industrial oil platform crop. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Original from the middle east, the plant named camelina, false flax, german sesame. Camelina sativa is an ancient oilseed crop that is a member of the brassicaceae family and is native to northern europe and central asia. Moreover, camelina crop has shown resistance to pests and diseases which affect other crops from the same family. With its low saturated fat content camelina oil could be considered a high quality edible oil, but it is also quite highly polyunsaturated.
Camelina official adapt 2030 website keeping your families. All cultivars were combineharvested hege 125 after reaching full maturity. Some use of duct tape on certain key locations of a combine is necessary to. We report the development of an agrobacteriumbased floral dip transformation method, requiring no vacuuminfiltration step, with transformation efficiencies up to 0. Present in lower 48 states of continental usa except for ak, al, ca, co, fl, ga, in, ms, nv, tn, tx and hi. Page designed through the cooperative efforts of interagency itis teams. It can be cultivated both in winter and spring season, having a remarkable capacity to adapt and resist to difficult climate conditions. National plant germplasm system covid19 update, march 23, 2020. Ye nativa deuropa del norte y asia central, pero introduciose en america del norte, posiblemente como una maleza nel sector del llinu. Evaluation parameters included input costs, production costs, harvest costs, and yield. The average yield was 180450 kg per acre 4451112 kg per hectare. Stems are generally smooth or only sparsely hairy near their base hitchcock and cronquist 1973. The crop was cultivated extensively in the 19th century in france and to a lesser extent in holland, belgium and russia.
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