STUDIES REGARDING THE MODIFICATIONS IN THE STRUCTURE OF OLEAGINOUS CROPS IN SOUTH DOBROGEA

There are over 100 plants from which vegetal fats are obtained and they belong to various botanical families. In some species, the main purpose of the crop is to obtain oils, these forming the group of typical oliferous plants such as: sunflower, oil flax, castor, rape, safflower, sesame, perilla, lalemantia. Other plants that provide vegetal oils, such as cotton, hemp, flax, maize, sorghum, rice, poppy,mustard tobacco, some medicinal and narcotic plants, soy, peanuts etc, belong to different phytotechnical groups. Oil extraction is not their main purpose. Large quantities of oil can also be found in the seeds of other plants such as pumpkin and melon