Castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) is a promising industrial crop suitable for cultivation in marginal conditions the Mediterranean area, but mechanical harvesting of seeds still usually performed manually. In this manuscript, authors present preliminary test to assess effectiveness equipping combine harvester with sunflower header mechanically harvest castor beans. Machinery performance, seed l...

Castor bean has not been well studied in different genotypes and geographic zones despite its application industry medicine. Recently, the use of castor beans as biodiesel makes this plant a point interest for researchers. However, more studies are needed evaluating from ecologies. The effect climatic zones, Adana Mersin, on fatty acid profile chaster seed oils was investigated. It found that l...

and Applied Immunology , which later resulted in the general rejection of chlorogenic acid’s role in allergic disease. It was not until 1978 that Lehrer et al. [5] reported on the extraction and analysis of coffee-bean allergens, demonstrating that coffee-bean allergens differ from the allergen of castor beans. This was followed by a number of important serological and clinical studies establis...