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 ...

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2008), and the phylogenetic tree was constructed via the Neighbor-Joining (NJ ... Arabidopsis was selected as the model plant. It was verified that the 28 Jatropha curcas AS2/LOB protein sequences ...

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He said biofuel could be sourced from sugar cane and Jatropha plants, which are largely produced in Jigawa. This biofuel, he said, has the potential to produce quality fuel to power engines and ...

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