Mexican researchers ID high oil-yielding pine nut varieties for biodiesel

In Mexico, researchers from the National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock Research are making headway on the production of biodiesel from pine nuts with three high oil yielding varieties have been selected from clones sourced from the national germplasm bank. The three varieties will be promoted to farmers seeking to develop pine plantations where it is already a common crop in the regions of Chiapas, Guerrero, Quintana Roo, Hidalgo, Morelos, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Puebla, Sinaloa and Yucatan.