{"id":1173,"date":"2014-09-16T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T11:43:45","slug":"sgbs-new-hybrid-of-jatropha-with-shorter-maturation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/09\/sgbs-new-hybrid-of-jatropha-with-shorter-maturation-period\/","title":{"rendered":"SGB\u2019s New Hybrid of Jatropha with Shorter Maturation Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jatropha.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1174\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Jatropha-150x150.png\" alt=\"Jatropha\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>SGB Inc, San Diego, has successfully developed a Jatropha hybrid, which has rapid time of maturity and high yielding capacity. The major barrier, concerned with Jatropha is its long time of maturation of about 5 years. The latest generation hybrids have been reduced to one to two years, which is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>SGB conducted pre-commercial trials with its top 10 hybrids, and the best performing hybrid being recognised, gave an equivalent of 300 gallons of oil per acre in year one, with a corresponding protein production of 0.6 metric tons which is 30% higher than that of yield from soy. The protein is of high quality and contains essential amino acids, comparable to soybean.<\/p>\n<p>The underlying reason for early failures of Jatropha:<br \/>\n\u2022 Insufficient germplasm diversity that obstruct effective breeding and improvement of Jatropha,<br \/>\n\u2022 Lack of understanding and\/ or implementation of the agronomic practices to unlock full potential of Jatropha<\/p>\n<p>Finally, SGB is done with its necessary trials on this super breed, and is ready to commercialise. An investment of $40 million and 7 years of research has resulted in a viable alternative to soybean and palm as a sustainable source of oil and protein.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgbinc.com\/downloads\/SGB-Jatropha-White-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SGB Inc, San Diego, has successfully developed a Jatropha hybrid, which has rapid time of maturity and high yielding capacity. The major barrier, concerned with Jatropha is its long time of maturation of about 5 years. The latest generation hybrids &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/09\/sgbs-new-hybrid-of-jatropha-with-shorter-maturation-period\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-research","tag-jatropha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}