Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Biosafety, cilt.3, sa.4, ss.81-94, 2010 (Hakemli Dergi)
Due to the increased air pollution caused by fossil fuel consumption clean fuel production
technologies have been focused by genetic engineering and biotechnology researchers. These are
renewable fuels that are compatible with environment. Biodiesel as a plant based fuel can solve
the problems arising by fossil fuel consumption. By manipulating the oil crops, fatty acid content
can be modified. Oleic acid is one of these fatty acids which is formed of 18 carbons and only
one double bond in its carbon chain, so gives some characteristics to the extracted oils that are
fortified with this fatty acid. Thus the manipulation of the aforementioned crops is considered as
a step in biodiesel production. Crops manipulations due to changing the society’s requirements
can be promising but may be able associated with some biosafety concerns. In this paper
biosafety issues related to the production of biofuel including the claimed effect on biodiversity
of crop plants are reviewed.