MUTAGENIZED TOBACCO PLANT AS SEED CULTURE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OIL FOR ENERGETIC, INDUSTRIAL AND ALIMENTARY USES
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1. A mutagenised tobacco plant characterised in that it produces a seed quantity of at least 20 quintals per hectare.
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The present invention relates to the development of tobacco plants, modified through mutagenesis techniques, interspecific hybridisation followed by poliploidisation and recombinant DNA technologies, characterised by the fact of being capable of producing a very high amount of seeds and their use for the production of oil for energetic and industrial scopes, such as combustion oil, biodiesel and lubricating oil, and for animal and human alimentation.
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- 1. A mutagenised tobacco plant characterised in that it produces a seed quantity of at least 20 quintals per hectare.
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14. A method for the extraction of oil from tobacco seeds wherein the oil yield is between the 70 and the 95% of the oil contained in said seeds comprising:
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a) mechanically extracting said oil by pressing with helical press and obtaining oil and a residual oilcake; b) filtering said oil extracted in a) with paper or cloth filters. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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