Mutagenized tobacco plant as seed culture for production of oil for energetic, industrial and alimentary uses

Abstract

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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         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 the following steps:
 a) mechanically extracting said oil by pressing with helical press and obtaining oil and a residual oilcake;   b) filtering said oil extracted in step a) with paper or cloth filters.   
     
     
         15 . The method according to  claim 14  further comprising step
 c) chemically extracting by the use of solvents the residual oil contained in the oilcake obtained in step a). 
 
     
     
         16 . The method according to  claim 14  wherein said oil is extracted from seeds. 
     
     
         17 . The method according to  claim 15  further comprising step
 d) refining the oil obtained in steps a) or b), and c). 
 
     
     
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