Seed yield components, oil content, and fatty acid composition of two cultivars of moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) growing in the Arid Chaco of Argentina

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 389-394

  Ayerza, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Arid Chaco; Moringa oleifera Gaertn; Oleic fatty acid

Indexed keywords

ACID CONTENT; ARGENTINA; ARID CHACO; CLIMATE CONDITION; FATTY ACID COMPOSITION; KERNEL WEIGHT; LINOLEIC; MORINGA; MORINGA OLEIFERA; OIL CONTENTS; OIL PRODUCERS; OLEIC FATTY ACID; PTERYGOSPERMA; SEED WEIGHT; SEED YIELD;

CULTIVATION; SEED;

FATTY ACIDS;

ARID REGION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; FATTY ACID; PLANTATION; SEED; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARGENTINA; CHACO [ARGENTINA]; INDIA;

MORINGA; MORINGA OLEIFERA; MORINGACEAE;

EID: 78651475206     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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