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Title: Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress): An off-season energy crop within the corn-soybean rotation

Author
item Isbell, Terry

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/20/2014
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Pennycress is being developed as an off-season rotation crop between annual corn and soybean production. This rotation scheme may offer distinct advantages to farmers by providing additional farm income from an otherwise fallow season with little impact on the subsequent soybean production. The seed contains up to 36% oil with the major fatty acid as erucic (38.1%). The fatty acid composition in thlaspi has been shown to have physical properties suitable for biofuels like biodiesel and hydro-treated renewable jet fuel (HRJ). Like many developing new crops, many aspects of pennycress growth and development have yet to be fully characterized.