A plant structure that develops from an ovule and has as parts an embryo enclosed in a seed coat.

Seeds

Semillas

Crops

Cultivos de Florida

Primarily soybeans, and other crops such as peanuts, cottonseed, sunflower seed, flaxseed, safflower seed, rapeseed, sesame seed, castor beans, canola, rapeseed, and mustard seeds used to produce edible and/or inedible oils, as well as high-protein animal meal.
Oil-bearing crops or oil crops include both annual (usually called oilseeds) and perennial plants whose seeds, fruits or mesocarp and nuts are valued mainly for the edible or industrial oils that are extracted from them.

Oilseed Crops

UF/IFAS has been working to identify advanced genotypes of Brassica carinata (carinata) that will be profitable for cultivation as an oilseed crop in the southeastern US. Its high oil content and favorable fatty acid profile make it suitable for the biofuel industry as a biojet fuel. A near relative of collard and mustard, a variety developed by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1972 can be also be grown as a green leafy vegetable in Florida.

Carinata

Peanuts

Producción de maní

Soybeans

Soya

Millettia pannata
[header and thumbnail image: Pongamia spreading down a river in south Florida. Credit: Michael Sthreshley, UF/IFAS]

Oilseed Crops

Narrower Topics

Carinata

Peanuts

Pongamia

Soybeans

Publications

Camelina Production in Florida

Tung Oil Production in Florida

Irrigation Scheduling for Young Pongamia (Millettia pinnata (L.) Panigrahi) Trees