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Issues in New Crops and New Uses Proceedings of the sixth National Symposium Creating Markets for Economic Development of New Crops and New Uses

CONTENTS

1. Research Strategies and Tools
2. Bioenergy
3. Industrial Crops
4. Industrial Oilseeds
5. Edible Oilseeds, Grains, and Grain Legumes
6. Fruits, Vegetables, and Nursery Crops
7. Botanicals and Medicinals

List of Contributors

Preface—David Dierig, Jules Janick, Robert Myers, Dennis Ray, Duane Johnson, President, and Carmela Bailey

PART I: RESEARCH ISSUES, STRATEGIES, AND BIOENERGY

RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND TOOLS

• Linking Research to Commercialization—Thomas C. Dorr
• Strategies for Narrowing the Gap Between R&D and Commercialization of New Crops—Richard F. Wilson
• Specialty Crops: Some Examples for New Crop Development—Dwayne R. Buxton
• Harnessing Information Technologies for More Efficient Crop Development—J.W. White, D.A. Dierig, P. Tomasi, A. Salywon, and D. Nath
• User-friendly Geographic Information Systems: Helpful Tools for New Crop Development—Stephanie L. Greene

BIOENERGY

• New Directions for Research in Bioenergy and Biobased Products—Gale Buchanan
• University Research and Education Programs on Renewable Energy: The Sun Grant Initiative—Kevin D. Kephart
• The Future of Biorefining for Fuels and Chemicals Production—Robert C. Brown
• Giant Miscanthus: Biomass Crop for Illinois—Rich Pyter, Tom Voigt, Emily Heaton, Frank Dohleman, and Steve Long
• Utilizing Locally-produced Canola to Manufacture Biodiesel—Harbans L. Bhardwaj
• Potential of Annual Cereal Crops to Serve as Fuel Ethanol Feedstock and Livestock Feed—Chengci Chen, Ratna Sharma-Shivappa, Ye Chen, Dave Wichman, and Duane Johnson
• Biological and Economic Feasibility of Pearl Millet as a Feedstock for Ethanol Production—J.P. Wilson, A.J. McAloon, W. Yee, J. McKinney, D. Wang, and S.R. Bean
• Phenology of Oilseed Crops for Bio-Diesel in the High Plains—Alexander D. Pavlista and David D. Baltensperger

PART II: NEW CROP REVIEW

INDUSTRIAL CROPS

• A Six Step Harvesting Procedure for Guayule Small Plots for Laboratory Analyses—T.A. Coffelt and F.S. Nakayama
• The Rationale for Transforming Sunflower into a Rubber-Producing Crop—C.H. Pearson, K. Cornish, C.M. McMahan, M. Whalen, D.J. Rath, N. Dong, and S. Wong
• Using Peat Pellets in Liquid Media to Root Sunflower Tissue Culture Plants—C.H. Pearson, K. Cornish, C.M. McMahan, M. Whalen, D.J. Rath, N. Dong, and S. Wong
• Production Variables Affecting Follicle and Biomass Development in Common Milkweed—Winthrop B. Phippen

INDUSTRIAL OILSEEDS

• Engineering Oilseeds for Industry—Mark A. Smith
• A Weed Control Program for Establishing Lesquerella—M.A. Foster, D.A. Dierig, and M.J. Wintermeyer
• Barriers to Commercialization of a Castor Cultivar with Reduced Concentration of Ricin—Cindy Lowery, Dick Auld, Rial Rolfe, Tom McKeon, and John Goodrum
• The Enzymology of Castor Oil Biosynthesis—Thomas A. McKeon, Grace Q. Chen, Xiaohua He, Yeh-Jin Ahn, and Jiann-Tsyh Lin
• Seeding Date and Performance of Specialty Oilseeds in North Dakota—P.K. Gilbertson, B.L. Johnson, M.T. Berti, and M.A. Halvorson
• Cuphea Plant Nitrate Content and Seed Yield Response to Nitrogen Fertilizer—Marisol Berti, Burton Johnson, Russ Gesch, and Frank Forcella
• Echium: A Source of Stearidonic Acid Adapted to the Northern Great Plains in the US—M. Berti, B.L. Johnson, S. Dash, S. Fischer, R. Wilckens, and F. Hevia
• Neem Tree Morphology and Oil Content—Sergio Muñoz-Valenzuela, Alberto Arnoldo Ibarra-López, Luis Mariano Rubio-Silva, Humberto Valdez-Dávila, and Jesús Borboa-Flores
• Camelina sativa, A Montana Omega-3 and Fuel Crop—Alice L. Pilgeram, David C. Sands, Darrin Boss, Nick Dale, David Wichman, Peggy Lamb, Chaofu Lu, Rick Barrows, Mathew Kirkpatrick, Brian Thompson, and Duane L. Johnson
• Scale-Up of Sicklepod Processing—Rogers E. Harry-O’kuru
• Response of Conifer Seedlings to Potting Medium Amendment with Meadowfoam Seed Meal—R.G. Linderman, E.A. Davis, and C.J. Masters

EDIBLE OILSEEDS, GRAINS, AND GRAIN LEGUMES

• Phenology of Sesame—D. Ray Langham
• High Drama in Vegetable Oils—Larry W. Kleingartner
• Oil Pumpkins: Niche for Organic Producers—F. Bavec, S. Grobelnik Mlakar, Č. Rozman, and M. Bavec
• Evaluaton of Canola Lines in the Utah Valley—Sergio Muñoz-Valenzuela and Andrew Easton
• Evaluation of Safflower Genotypes in Northwest México—Sergio Muñoz-Valenzuela, Gabriel Chanda Musa, Lope Montoya-Coronado, and Victor Manuel Rivera-Rojas
• Progress in Grain Pearl Millet Research and Market Development—S.K. Gulia, J.P. Wilson, J. Carter, and B.P. Singh
• Winter Pea Evaluations in Eastern North Dakota—Burton L. Johnson, Paula J. Petersen, and Marisol T. Berti

FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND NURSERY CROPS

• Uncommon Fruits with Market Potential—Lee Reich
• New Fruit Crops With High Water Use Efficiency—Y. Mizrahi, E. Raveh, E. Yossov, A. Nerd, and J. Ben-Asher
• Evaluation of Edamame Cultivars in New Jersey and Maryland—William J. Sciarappa, Laura K. Hunsberger, Diandian Shen, Qing-Li Wu, Jim Simon, and Brian Hulme
• Chives and Perilla, Korean Greens for Emerging Ethnic Markets—Chung-Heon Park, Pierre Tannous, James E. Simon, TaeOh Kwon, William Sciarappa, Lyle E. Craker, Richard Vranken, Wesley Kline, Peter J. Nitzsche, H. Rodolfo Juliani, and Ramu Govindasamy
• Production and Marketing of Huitlacoche—W.F. Tracy, C. Vargas, L. Zepeda, J.K. Pataky, and M.A. Chandler
• Old and New Trends Influencing the Introduction of New Nursery Crops—Mark P. Widrlechner

BOTANICALS AND MEDICINALS

• Medicinal and Aromatic Plants—Future Opportunities—Lyle E. Craker
• Utilizing the National Plant Germplasm System for Medicinal Plant Research—Joe-Ann McCoy
• A Market Driven Approach to Ethnic Crop Production for the US East Coast—Ramu Govindasamy, William Sciarappa, Venkata S. Puduri, Richard VanVranken, Albert Ayeni, Kim Pappas, James E. Simon, Frank Mangan, Mary Lamberts, and Gene McAvoy
• Growing and Marketing Woodland Botanicals—Jeanine M. Davis
• Screening Coriander Gene Pool for Special Uses—Pedro A. López, M.P. Widrlechner, P.W. Simon, S. Rai, T.B. Bailey, and C.A. Gardner
• Elderberry as a Medicinal Plant—D. Charlebois
• Characterization and Evaluation of Two Chilean Populations of Geum quellyon—Susana Fischer, Luis Inostroza, Rosemarie Wilckens, Marisol Berti, Marcelo Baeza, and Edgar Pastene
• Direct Marketing of US Grown Chinese Medicinal Botanicals: Feasibility and Marketing Strategies—Jean Giblette and Charles A. Martin
• Breeding Sweet Basil for Chilling Tolerance—Paulo Ribeiro and James E. Simon
• In-Vitro Selection for Stress Tolerant Spearmint—Hussein Al-Amier and Lyle E. Craker
• Catnip as a Source of Essential Oils—Chung-Heon Park, Pierre Tannous, H. Rodolfo Juliani, Qing-Li Wu, William J. Sciarappa, Rick VanVranken, Peter Nitzsche, Dennis Dalponte, and James E. Simon
• The Production of Native and Exotic Herbs, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Argentina—H. Rodolfo Juliani, Fernando N. Biurrun, Adolfina Koroch, Angela De Carli, and Julio A. Zygadlo
• Medicinal Crops of Africa—James E. Simon, Adolfina R. Koroch, Dan Acquaye, Elton Jefthas, Rodolfo Juliani, and Ramu Govindasamy
• Retailers and Wholesalers of African Herbal and Natural Products: Case Studies from Ghana and Rwanda—Ramu Govindasamy, James Simon, Venkat S. Puduri, H. Rodolfo Juliani, Juliana Asante-Dartey, Hanson Arthur, Bismarck Diawuo, Dan Acquaye, and Nicholas Hitimana
• Quality Attributes of Ginger and Cinnamon Essential Oils from Madagascar—Adolfina Koroch, Lalasoa Ranarivelo, Olivier Behra, H. Rodolfo Juliani, and James E. Simon