Oil Crops

Cover13; -- Oil Crops -- HANDBOOK OF PLANT BREEDING -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Oil Crop Breeding and Genetics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Domestication and Genetic Diversity -- 1.2.1 Domestication of Oil Crops -- 1.2.2 Oil Crop Germplasm -- 1.2.3 Genetic Diversity in Oil Crops -- Selected Examples -- 1.3 Recent Milestones in Oil Crop Breeding -- 1.4 Specific Breeding Objectives -- 1.4.1 Oil Content -- 1.4.2 Altered Seed Composition for Health and Industrial Applications -- 1.5 Perspectives in Oil Crop Breeding -- 1.5.1 Technology -- 1.5.2 Biology -- 1.5.3 Utilization -- References -- Modifying Vegetable Oils for Food and Non-food Purposes -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Modulating the Fatty Acid Content of Plant Oils for Food Uses -- 2.2.1 Fatty Acid Profile and Oil Functionality -- 2.2.2 Conventional Approaches to Fatty Acid Modification -- 2.2.3 Novel Fatty Acid Profiles in Soybean Derived from the Tools of Biotechnology -- 2.3 Next Generation Edible Oils: Producing Long Chain omega-3 Fatty Acids in Seed Oils -- 2.3.1 Engineering Complex Pathways into Plant Seeds -- 2.3.2 LCPUFA Production in Plants -- 2.3.3 EPA Production in Plants via the Delta6 Desaturase Pathway -- 2.3.4 EPA Production in Plants via the Delta9 Elongase Pathway -- 2.3.5 DHA Production in Plants via the Aerobic Elongation/Desaturation Pathways -- 2.3.6 DHA Production in Plants via the Anaerobic Polyketide Synthase Pathway -- 2.4 Modifying Vegetable Oils for Non-food Purposes -- 2.4.1 Non-food Uses of Plant Oils -- 2.4.2 High Oleic Acid Soybean Oil -- 2.4.3 Metabolic Engineering of Soybean for the Production of Oils with High-Value Industrial Fatty Acids -- References -- Soybean -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Origin and Domestication -- 3.3 Varietal Groups -- 3.4 Genetic Resources -- 3.5 Major Breeding Accomplishments -- 3.6 Current Goals of Breeding -- 3.6.1 Seed Oil Concentration -- 3.6.2 Fatty Acid Modification -- 3.6.3 Reduced Saturates -- 3.6.4 Increased Saturates -- 3.6.5 Increased Monounsaturates -- 3.6.6 Trans-fat Reduction -- 3.6.7 Increased Polyunsaturates -- 3.6.8 Increasing Nutraceuticals in Seed -- 3.7 Breeding Methods and Techniques -- 3.7.1 Gain from Selection -- 3.7.2 Sources of Gains from Selection -- 3.7.3 Parent and Population Structure -- 3.7.4 Advancing Toward Homozygosity -- 3.7.5 Participatory Plant Breeding -- 3.7.6 Selection Among Pure Lines -- 3.7.7 Intra-cultivar Variation -- 3.7.8 New Technology in Plant Breeding Operations -- 3.8 Integration of New Biotechnologies into Breeding Programs -- 3.8.1 Reduced Saturates -- Germplasm and Biotechnologies -- 3.8.2 Increased Saturates -- Germplasm and Biotechnologies -- 3.8.3 Increased Monounsaturates -- Germplasm and Biotechnologies -- 3.8.4 Reduced 18:3 -- Germplasm and Biotechnologies -- 3.8.5 Increased Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids -- Germplasm and Biotechnologies -- 3.8.6 Oil Constituents with High Value -- References -- Oilseed Rape -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Origin and Domestication -- 4.3 Varietal Groups -- 4.4 Genetic Resources -- 4.4.1 Genetic Diversity in the Primary Gene Pool -- 4.4.2 Expanding Genetic Variability by Interspecific Hybridisation -- 4.5 Major Breeding Achievements -- 4.6 Current Goals of Breeding -- 4.6.1 Seed and Oil Yield Potential and Stability -- 4.6.2 Improvement of Seed Components.