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The Castor Bean Genome (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Castor Bean Genome (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes
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This book addresses various aspects of the current castor bean
research, including genetics, biotechnology, comparative genomics,
and more specific topics such as oil metabolism and the ricin
toxin. It also presents the whole genome sequencing of the castor
bean and its impact on the mining of gene families and future plant
breeding. Castor bean (Ricinus communis), an oilseed plant, belongs
to the Euphorbiaceae (spurge) family. It is a tropical and
subtropical crop valued for the high quality and uniform nature of
its oil, which is mostly composed of the uncommon fatty acid
ricinoleate. Castor bean oil has important industrial applications
for the production of lubricants, cosmetics, medicines, and
specialty chemicals, and castor bean has also been proposed as a
biodiesel crop that does not pose concerns regarding the "food
versus fuel" debate. However, it accumulates the type 2
ribosome-inactivating protein ricin in its seeds, and health
concerns posed by ricin's high toxicity have prevented broader
cultivation. Recently, there has been renewed interest in castor
bean due to potential biosecurity issues.
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