| dc.creator | World Conference on Lauric Oils: Sources, Processing, and Applications.
44655 | |
| dc.creator | Braun, Andrew.
53754 | |
| dc.date | 1994. | |
| dc.identifier | URN:ISBN:0-935315-56-x | |
| dc.description | Biotechnology is a powerful new tool for the development of crop varieties with superior agronomic and functional characteristics, In particular, genetic engineering allows for the development of crops that cannot be developed through conventional plant breeding because it allows for the introduction of genes from any organism into the target crop. In contrast, plant breeding is limited to introducing genes from sexually compatible species. Since the early 1980s, scientists have been applying this technology to plants with the aim of developing oilseed varieteis with modified oil composition. Among the products currently under development are rapeseed varieties with elevated levels of lauric oil. First generation products with lauric/myristic acid contents of nearly 50% have been developed (the balance of the fatty acids being primarily C18 unsaturates) and are undergoing their fourth season of field testing in the southeastern and midwestern regions of the United States. These high-lauric varieties are agronomically competitive with nongenetically engineered rapeseed, making it possible to produce high-lauric rapeseed oil at prices close to commodity prices of canola or soybean oil. In the future, second generation rapessed varieties containing 70% lauric acid will be available. First generation high-lauric rapeseed varieties coul be commercialized as early as 1995 in the United States. Regulatory efforsts, alrge-scale field trials, and planting scale-ups are all underway. The extent to which these first lauric oil varieties will be commercialized will depend in large part upon the relationship of lauric oil prices to rapeseed-oil prices. Second generation products could have advantages over current lauric oils but will still be part of the current lauric oil complex. Projecting the longterm relationship betwen these oils is problematic at best. It is no clear whether or nor high-lauric rapaseed oil will be supportive of or detrimental to existing aluric oil suppliers. While a new source of lauric oil could have a negative impact on lauric oil pricing, it could also improve supply stability and in turn facilitate the development of new lauric oil apllications and increase lauric oil demand. | |
| dc.description | 14 ref. | |
| dc.description | Biotechnology is a powerful new tool for the development of crop varieties with superior agronomic and functional characteristics, In particular, genetic engineering allows for the development of crops that cannot be developed through conventional plant breeding because it allows for the introduction of genes from any organism into the target crop. In contrast, plant breeding is limited to introducing genes from sexually compatible species. Since the early 1980s, scientists have been applying this technology to plants with the aim of developing oilseed varieteis with modified oil composition. Among the products currently under development are rapeseed varieties with elevated levels of lauric oil. First generation products with lauric/myristic acid contents of nearly 50% have been developed (the balance of the fatty acids being primarily C18 unsaturates) and are undergoing their fourth season of field testing in the southeastern and midwestern regions of the United States. These high-lauric varieties are agronomically competitive with nongenetically engineered rapeseed, making it possible to produce high-lauric rapeseed oil at prices close to commodity prices of canola or soybean oil. In the future, second generation rapessed varieties containing 70% lauric acid will be available. First generation high-lauric rapeseed varieties coul be commercialized as early as 1995 in the United States. Regulatory efforsts, alrge-scale field trials, and planting scale-ups are all underway. The extent to which these first lauric oil varieties will be commercialized will depend in large part upon the relationship of lauric oil prices to rapeseed-oil prices. Second generation products could have advantages over current lauric oils but will still be part of the current lauric oil complex. Projecting the longterm relationship betwen these oils is problematic at best. It is no clear whether or nor high-lauric rapaseed oil will be supportive of or detrimental to existing aluric oil suppliers. While a new source of lauric oil could have a negative impact on lauric oil pricing, it could also improve supply stability and in turn facilitate the development of new lauric oil apllications and increase lauric oil demand. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Champaing : AOCS, | |
| dc.subject | Aceite láurico | |
| dc.subject | Biotecnología. | |
| dc.subject | Colza (grano) | |
| dc.subject | Comercialización | |
| dc.subject | desarrollo | |
| dc.subject | Ingeniería genética. | |
| dc.title | The development and comercialization of high-lauric rapessed oil. | |
| dc.type | text | |
