Crambe


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Crambe

 

a genus of annual or perennial plants of the family Cruciferae. They are generally densely branched herbs with large succulent leaves. The flowers are usually white. The fruit is two-sectioned, with an infertile lower section and a fertile monospermous upper section. There are between 20 and 25 species in Eurasia and Africa. In the USSR there are between 18 and 20 species, distributed on steppes, semideserts, and arid mountain slopes and sometimes along seacoasts (Baltic Region, southern European USSR, the Caucasus, Middle Asia, and the southern part of Western Siberia). The best-known species is sea kale (C. marétima). The stalks of its vernal leaves are used as a vegetable, which is smilar to asparagus. Sometimes sea kale is cultivated. The young shoots of C. tatarica and the raw leaves of C. oriental is are also used for food. The species C. Kotschyana is a valuable fodder, nectar-bearing, and starch-yielding plant; it is suitable for cultivation. The seeds of C. abyssinica, which grows in the Abyssinian Highlands, contain up to 53 percent nutrient oil.

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O presente trabalho objetivou a determinacao da composicao centesimal e dos padroes da cinetica de degradacao da materia seca e da proteina bruta dos graos e coprodutos do crambe, girassol e soja, utilizados na alimentacao de ovinos.
Degradabilidade in situ dos graos de crambe, girassol e soja, e de seus coprodutos em ovinos
Low levels of genetic variation in mtDNA sequences over the western Mediterranean and Atlantic range of the sponge Crambe crambe (Poecilosclerida).
Sponge systematics by starfish: predators distinguish cryptic sympatric species of Caribbean fire sponges, Tedania ignis and Tedania klausi n. sp. (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida)
The acetone extract and free sulfur values of meadowfoam, rapeseed and crambe factices were in the same range.
Meadowfoam oil factice and its performance in natural rubber mixes
Key words: Crambe, light microscopy, pollen grains, scanning electron microscopy, seed coat morphology.
POLLEN AND SEED MORPHOLOGY OF CRAMBE SPECIES OF TURKEY
Researches involving crambe, especially regarding the quality control of seeds, are critical to the use of the culture and are justified by the potential of the species and lack of information regarding the physiological quality with which its seeds are produced, especially in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where the production accounts for most of the national production (MASETTO et al.
pH of exudate test in the physiological quality of crambe seeds/Teste do pH do exsudato para avaliacao da qualidade fisiologica de sementes de crambe
2010) reported that the crambe crop has lower production costs compared with other oil sources (canola, sunflower and soybean).
Crambe dry matter and yield under doses of phosphorus and base saturation in the Cerrado of Goias/Massa seca e produtividade do crambe sob doses de fosforo e saturacao por bases em condicoes de Cerrado Goiano
2011), no estudo da secagem de sementes de crambe e por Jittanit (2011), na investigacao da desidratacao de sementes de abobora.
Effective diffusivity and activation energy in flours of residuals annatto grains/Difusividade efetiva e energia de ativacao em farinhas de graos residuais de urucum
These characteristics allow crambe to be cultivated during the winter.
The influence of drying on the physiological quality of crambe fruits/ Influencia da secagem na qualidade fisiologica dos frutos de crambe
Crambe, industrial rapeseed and tung provide valuable oils.
Drought stress and sowing date effects on yield and some grain traits of rapeseed cultivars
circumcinctus and the weevil complex on Crambe is briefly presented.
Natural history of the Crambe feeder, Lixus circumcinctus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Hanson and colleagues have extensively researched 100 combinations of 10 crops grown in rotation sequences: barley, canola, crambe, dry bean, dry pea, flax, safflower, soybean, sunflower, and spring wheat.
Moving away from wheat/fallow in the great plains
In a year of greater soil water availability, soil water depletion of canola and crambe was about 60 percent of that of sunflower.
Water use and depletion by diverse crop species on Haplustoll soil in the northern great plains

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