FATTY-ACIDS IN SEED-OILS OF EUROPEAN WILD PLANTS - A STARTING-POINT FOR DEVELOPING INDUSTRIAL CROPS

Abstract

Searching for new resources to produce industrial raw material comprises plant kingdom. Among the herbaceous plants seed-oil producing species are the most important group of potential economic plants which by means of thorough plant improvement can be developed into agricultural oil crops. Even though such programmes are underway for years in many countries, especially in the USA, an evaluation of the indigenous wildflora in Europe and corresponding breeding efforts resp., have been dealt with only sporadically. The following contribution presents twenty different wild species of indigenous provenience including their oil content and accompanying fatty acid patterns.