Editorial: Advances in oil crops research—classical and new approaches to achieve sustainable productivity

MILADINOVI?, DRAGANA; VOLLMANN, JOHANN; MOLINERO-RUIZ, LEIRE; TORRES, MARIELA

Frontiers in Plant Science

Frontiers Media S.A.

Lugar: Lausanne ; Año: 2019 vol. 10

The world production ofmain oil crops is steadily increasing,mainly due to population growth andincreased use of oil crops in bio-fuel production and in edible vegetable oils. Fromthe perspective ofsowing area in the world, oil crops are only preceded by cereals in importance. Edible or industrialoils are extracted from seeds, fruits or mesocarp, and nuts of both annual and perennial species. Oilcan be obtained fromabout 40 different crops, but soybean, sunflower, olive tree, and rapeseed havea major importance in the total world trade. The purpose of the Research Topic ?Advances in OilCrops Research?Classical and New Approaches to Achieve Sustainable Productivity? is to providethe reader compiled information of the latest research results about different aspects of oil crops.This research topic incorporates 23 publications including 19 research papers, three reviewarticles, and one perspective.