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• n  a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae

• Mark Dalton with his jatropha trees in Florida.
• DaimlerChrysler, for example, is promoting jatropha, a thorny plant that grows on marginal land in Latin America, Africa and India.
• A Florida farmer thinks the next big biodiesel alternative will come from the seedpods of the jatropha tree.

• Jatropha
• genus Jatropha

News & Articles

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• SGB Global Field Trials Reveal Rust-Resistant Jatropha Curcas
  SGB, Inc. , an energy crop company delivering high performance bioenergy solutions for the renewable fuel and chemicals markets, has identified fungal rust-resistant hybrids of Jatropha curcas through ...
  June 18, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Boyden Gray in MSNBC
  In Europe, biodiesel is defined in such a way that appears to exclude any feedstock except rapeseed,Mr Gray said. "But I'm confident jatropha will be blessed [at the Washington meeting]. I think we're going to be able to announce pretty...
• President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in NewKerala.com
  We would also like to explore a joint venture in the field of development of bio-fuels from sweet sorghum and jatropha,said Arroyo.