and coastal regions who were recruited to grow the plant. I'm not sure what happened. What I can say is that around the same time, General Motors also experimented on Jatropha-based biofuel.

The goal of the project is to demonstrate that jatropha can produce significant quantities of oil for conversion to biodiesel and to develop new varieties of the plant that have higher yields ...

New York: A U.S. company is eyeing countries such as India and Brazil to grow seeds of jatropha - the inedible, drought-resistant plant - to produce high-quality oil that can be refined into ...

Commissioner of food safety, Srinivas K, said while all parts of jatropha plants are poisonous, the seeds contain a high concentration of ricin and are more toxic. "The adverse effects after ...

Bolivia only has soybean as raw material but lacks the jatropha or macoró crops to generate the 70,000 tons of vegetable oil per annum required for this plant. Fundación Tierra researcher ...

Using the Energy Hidden in Plants in the Arid Regions of Botswana Jatropha: an ideal biofuel utilizing the environmental tolerance of wild plants Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and ...