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Genetic Transformation of Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus L.)

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Transgenic Crops of the World

Abstract

The world production of oilseed crops has more than doubled in the last 30 years, estimated at 318 million metric tonnes (MT) against 128 million MT in 1973–74 (1). Soybean accounts for 57% of the world production, followed by rape and cotton (each approx. 12%), ground nut (8%) and sunflower (7%). United States are the leaders for global oilseed crop production, providing 90 million MT (30%) to the world market. The European Union (EU), with a production of 15 million MT in 2002, is the 6th largest producer after the USA, China, Brazil, Argentina and India. Although sunflower seed production seems to be lagging behind other crops, its culture has regained interest since 1973 in Europe, with the anticipation of dependency on America for provision of plant proteins. In 2001, the EU was third for sunflower seed production (3.6 million MT) after Ex-USSR (6.33 million MT) and Argentina (5.4 million MT). Sunflower oil world production now ranks 4th after soybean, palm and rape, the leaders being Russia and Ukraine, followed by the EU and Argentina. Within the EU, the production of oilseed crops has multiplied 5-fold between 1980 (3 million MT) and 2001 (13.6 million MT). Sunflower is the second most important cultivated crop after oilseed rape. Cultivated surfaces of EU oil-seed crops near 5.4 million acres, 37% being devoted to sunflower.

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Hewezi, T., Alibert, G., Kallerhoff, J. (2004). Genetic Transformation of Sunflower (Helianthus Annuus L.). In: Curtis, I.S. (eds) Transgenic Crops of the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2333-0_32

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