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Research Project:
EVALUATION, IMPROVEMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW/ALTERNATIVE INDUSTRIAL CROPS
Location:
Environmental and Plant Dynamics Research
Project Number: 5344-21410-004-00
Project Type:
Appropriated
Start Date: Jul 24, 2003
End Date: Jul 23, 2008
Objective:
Objective 1: Acquire, evaluate, and enhance germplasm of guayule, lesquerella, and other promising species for use by industry in developing new/alternative industrial crops.
Objective 2: Develop economical production systems for new/alternative industrial crops.
Objective 3: Develop value added coproducts, improved analytical methods for traits such as latex, rubber, resin, oil, glucosinolate, estolide, and fatty acid contents, and post harvest storage methods for new industrial crops.
Objective 4: Develop improved germplasm for low input, high yielding, cost-competitive oilseed and biomass crops as bio-fuels and other biobased products that are environmentally sound alternatives to petroleum-based products.
Approach:
Germplasm that has been previously collected as well as new germplasm collections will be evaluated for important characteristics to meet objectives 1 and 4. Evaluation data and seed will be sent to the appropriate curators for entry into the National Plant Germplasm System. Standard and modified breeding procedures will be used in selecting and improving germplasm to develop enhanced germplasm with increased levels of desired traits such as oil content, specific fatty acid profiles, latex and resin contents, yield, resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, and biomass. Production systems will be devised and evaluated utilizing traditional plus new/alternative crops to develop systems that provide farmers profitable and sustainable management practices. New and improved analytical procedures will be developed as needed to evaluate germplasm for desired traits and potential co-products in Objectives 1 and 4.
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