This is a unique source of information on the world's over 50 individual oilseeds including major, minor, unexploited and non-edible oilcrops. Each crop is clearly presented in a portrait of the plant (botany, distribution, cultivation) including colour pictures, tabular data on nutritional composition and oil characteristics. The book discusses the composition, processing technologies and utilization in the processing of oilseeds into oil, protein products and other by-products.