Table Of ContentOilseed Crops
Oilseed Crops
Yield and Adaptations
under Environmental Stress
EditEd bY
Parvaiz Ahmad
department of botany, Sri Pratap College, Jammu and Kashmir, india
this edition first published 2017
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Contents
List of contributors, vii
Preface, x
About the editor, xii
1 Oilseed crops: Present scenario and future prospects, 1
Sarah Waseem, Sameen Ruqia Imadi, Alvina Gul, and Parvaiz Ahmad
2 Castor bean (Ricinus communis L.): Diversity, seed oil and uses, 19
Ezzeddine Saadaoui, José J. Martín, Nizar Tlili, and Emilio Cervantes
3 Seed composition in oil crops: Its impact on seed germination performance, 34
Natalia Izquierdo, Roberto Benech‐Arnold, Diego Batlla,
Raúl González Belo, and Jorge Tognetti
4 Oilseed crops and biodiesel production: Present and future prospects, 52
Abdalbasit A. Mariod and Mohammed Salaheldeen
5 Vegetable oil yield and composition influenced by environmental stress factors, 80
Sandra Balbino
6 Soybean: Growth, development and yield under salt stress, 102
Olimpia Gładysz, Agnieszka Waśkiewicz, Bartosz Ciorga, and Piotr Goliński
7 Sunflower resistance to the vampire weed broomrape: A Van Helsing quest story, 123
Pascal Labrousse and David Delmail
8 Biochemical and molecular studies on the commercial oil‐yielding desert shrub Simmondsia
chinensis (jojoba, a desert gold), 152
Suphiya Khan, Swati Agarwal, and Vinay Sharma
9 Role of phytohormones in improving the yield of oilseed crops, 165
Mohammad Ashfaq and Suphiya Khan
10 Plant–microbe interaction in oilseed crops, 184
Faisal Islam, Basharat Ali, Muhammad A. Farooq, Rafaqat A. Gill, Jian Wang, and Weijun Zhou
11 Brassicaceae plants: Metal accumulation and their role in phytoremediation, 207
Zeshan Ali, Hina Waheed, Alvina Gul, Farzana Afzal, Kiran Anwaar, and
Saiqa Imran
12 Role of organic and inorganic amendments in alleviating heavy metal
stress in oilseed crops, 224
Muhammad Rizwan, Shafaqat Ali, Farhat Abbas, Muhammad Adrees,
Muhammad Zia‐ur‐Rehman, Mujahid Farid, Rafaqat Ali Gill, and Basharat Ali
13 Biochemical and molecular responses of oilseed crops to heavy metal stress, 236
Zaid ul Hassan, Shafaqat Ali, Rehan Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan, Farhat Abbas,
Tahira Yasmeen, and Muhammad Iqbal
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14 The role of oilseed crops in human diet and industrial use, 249
Olufunmilola A. Abiodun
15 Appraisal of biophysical parameters in Indian mustard (Brassica juncea)
using thermal indices, 264
Tarun Adak and N.V.K. Chakravarty
Index, 286
List of contributors
Farhat Abbas Shafaqat Ali
Department of Environmental Sciences and Department of Environmental Sciences and
Engineering, Government College University, Engineering, Government College University,
Faisalabad, Pakistan Faisalabad, Pakistan
Olufunmilola A. Abiodun Zeshan Ali
Department of Home Economics and Food Science, National Institute of Bioremediation, National
University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Agricultural Research Center (NARC), Islamabad,
Pakistan
Tarun Adak
Division of Crop Production, CISH, Rehmankhera, Kiran Anwaar
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources
(PCRWR), Khyaban‐e‐Johar, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Adrees
Department of Environmental Sciences and Mohammad Ashfaq
Engineering, Government College University, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering,
Faisalabad, Pakistan Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur,
India; Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Farzana Afzal Banasthali University, Banasthali. India
Department of Botany, University of Azad Jammu
and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan Sandra Balbino
Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology,
Swati Agarwal University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India Diego Batlla
National Council of Scientific and Technical
Parvaiz Ahmad Research (CONICET), Argentina; Faculty of
Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Jammu Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos
and Kashmir, India Aires, Argentina
Rehan Ahmad Roberto Benech‐Arnold
Department of Environmental Sciences and National Council of Scientific and Technical
Engineering, Government College University, Research (CONICET), Argentina; Faculty of
Faisalabad, Pakistan Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Basharat Ali
Emilio Cervantes
Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation
(INRES), Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Germany IRNASA‐CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
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viii List of contributors
N.V.K. Chakravarty Saiqa Imran
Division of Agricultural Physics, Indian Agricultural Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources
Research Institute, New Delhi, India (PCRWR), Khyaban‐e‐Johar, Islamabad, Pakistan
Bartosz Ciorga Muhammad Iqbal
Department of Chemistry, Poznań University of Life Department of Environmental Sciences and
Sciences, Poznań, Poland Engineering, Government College University,
Faisalabad, Pakistan
David Delmail
University of Rennes 1 (European University of Faisal Islam
Brittany), Rennes, France Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key
Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University,
Mujahid Farid Hangzhou, China
Department of Environmental Sciences, University
of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan
Natalia Izquierdo
Faculty of Agricultural Science, National University
Muhammad A. Farooq
of Mar del Plata, Balcarce, Argentina; National
Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key
Council of Scientific and Technical Research
Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University,
(CONICET), Argentina
Hangzhou, China
Suphiya Khan
Rafaqat Ali Gill
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key
Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India
Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China
Pascal Labrousse
Olimpia Gładysz Faculty of Pharmacy, FR3503 GEIST, GRESE EA
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Wroclaw 4330 - Laboratory of Botany and Cryptogamy,
Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland University of Limoges, Limoges, France
Piotr Goliński Abdalbasit A. Mariod
Department of Chemistry, Poznań University of Life College of Science and Arts‐Alkamil, University
Sciences, Poznań, Poland of Jeddah, Alkamil, Saudi Arabia
Raúl González Belo José J. Martín
Faculty of Agricultural Science, National University IRNASA‐CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
of Mar del Plata, Balcarce, Argentina; National
Council of Scientific and Technical Research Muhammad Rizwan
(CONICET), Argentina Department of Environmental Sciences and
Engineering, Government College University,
Alvina Gul Faisalabad, Pakistan
Atta‐ur‐Rahman School of Applied Biosciences,
National University of Sciences and Technology, Ezzeddine Saadaoui
Islamabad, Pakistan
Regional Station of Gabes – INRGREF, University
of Carthage, Tunisia
Zaid ul Hassan
Department of Environmental Sciences and
Mohammed Salaheldeen
Engineering, Government College University,
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education,
Faisalabad, Pakistan
Nile Valley University, Atbara, Sudan
Sameen Ruqia Imadi
Atta‐ur‐Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, Vinay Sharma
National University of Sciences and Technology, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Islamabad, Pakistan Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India