• How did sunflower maintain its competitiveness on Oilseeds markets?
  • Sunflower succeeded in maintaining its competitiveness on oilseeds markets in the previous decades, through continuous innovation in genetics, production and markets and a growing segmentation.
  • What is high oleic sunflower oil?
  • High oleic sunflower contains 4?times more oleic acid than classical sunflower, with 84% oleic acid in oil. It competes on global scale with other high oleic oils but has the highest oleic level compared to oleic safflower (78%), oleic rapeseed and canola (75¨C73%) and oleic soybean (73%) ( Tonin, 2018 ).
  • Are sunflowers a good oil crop?
  • Sunflowers have emerged as an economical oil crop that can be incorporated into local cropping systems, enhance soil health, and increased biodiversity in a crop rotation system.
  • Can cold pressing produce high quality vegetable oil?
  • Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Cold pressing is frequently used to produce high-quality vegetable oils, especially from seeds with high oil content, such as rapeseeds. But, it encounters
  • Why do sunflowers need a deep taproot system?
  • Moisture conservation due to long, deep taproot system enables the plant to recover rapidly from moisture loss, and for survival under stress conditions (Hussain et?al., 2018). Sunflowers contribute about 87% of vegetable oil production, making it preferred over other oilseed crops.
  • Why do we need to expand sunflower production?
  • Due to the continuous increase in the human population, the demand for edible sunflower seeds, oil, and by©products has also increased, and to meet the demand, there is a need to intensify efforts to expand sunflower output (Taher, Javani, Beyaz, & Yildiz, 2017).