COSMOS – Camelina & crambe Oil crops as Sources for Medium-chain Oils for Specialty oleochemicals
- 01 Jan 1970
To overcome this, the currently underutilized domestic oil crops camelina and crambe will be turned into profitable, sustainable, multipurpose, non-transgenic European oil crops for the production of oleochemicals. Besides the optimization of seed and plant properties (high yield, low resource inputs, ease of cultivation and harvesting, optimized vegetative tissues and fatty acid profiles), the fractionation of extracted oils into various fatty acids will be improved by highly selective enzyme technologies and extraction processes. Additionally, to establish an overall economic, social and environmental sustainable life cycle of the value chain, vegetative tissues (like straw, leaves and press cake) will be utilized as insect fed to gain high-value proteins, chitin and fats for use in food and feed products.
