Biochemical and molecular studies on the commercial oil‐yielding desert shrubSimmondsia chinensis(jojoba, a desert gold)

Towards agro-environmentally sustainable irrigation with treated produced water in hyper-arid environments

“…Jojoba starts to produce a significant volume of oilseeds four years after planting. The potential value of a jojoba crop was estimated at $1,500/ha/year four years after planting and up to $6,250/ha/year eight years after planting (Khan et al, 2017). The estimated potential revenue, which is greater than the estimated operational cost, needs to be compared to the total financial cost of the project which includes the capital cost.…”

Review Article Propagation of Jojoba, Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schnneider: Constraints and Prospects

“…Jojoba [Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schnneider] is a multi-stemmed evergreen woody plant commonly grows between 0.6 and 3 meters in height [1,2]. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious, apetalous and wind pollinated [3]. Jojoba is a tap-rooted plant.…”

“…Jojoba is a tap-rooted plant. Jojoba plant has extensive root system that can reaches 15-25 meter with significant parallel primary and secondary roots to absorb moisture and nutrition from a considerable volume of soil [4,5], thus permitting jojoba plants to flourish under drought conditions where a number of plants unable to survive an grouped as a true xerophyte [6,7]. Jojoba seed resembles a peanut or acorn in shape, commonly plain, with black to brown colour.…”