Enhancing Erucic Acid and Wax Ester Production in through Metabolic Engineering for Industrial Applications.

Metabolic engineering enables oilseed crops to be more competitive by having more attractive properties for oleochemical industrial applications. The aim of this study was to increase the erucic acid level and to produce wax ester (WE) in seed oil by genetic transformation to enhance the industrial applications of . Six transgenic lines for high erucic acid and fifteen transgenic lines for wax esters were obtained.

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Ethiopian Mustard ( A. Braun) as Revealed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers.

Ethiopian mustard ( A. Braun) is currently one of the potential oilseeds dedicated to the production for biofuel and other bio-industrial applications. The crop is assumed to be native to Ethiopia where a number of diversified germplasms are found and conserved .

Patterns of domestication in the Ethiopian oil-seed crop noug (Guizotia abyssinica).

Noug (Guizotia abyssinica) is a semidomesticated oil-seed crop, which is primarily cultivated in Ethiopia. Unlike its closest crop relative, sunflower, noug has small seeds, small flowering heads, many branches, many flowering heads, and indeterminate flowering, and it shatters in the field. Here, we conducted common garden studies and microsatellite analyses of genetic variation to test whether high levels of crop-wild gene flow and/or unfavorable phenotypic correlations have hindered noug domestication.