Evaluation of Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium L.) from Different Viewpoint

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity is very important for the sustainability of life. Because of less attach value on a biodiversity, people are face to environmental disaster. People’s first goal is profitability in agriculture and they didn’t care about destruction of environment. Thus far, people just focus on cultivated plants and its cause to loose biodiversity and biological viability in massive lands. Nature have many plant which isn’t use directly for human food. When looked their content, these plant can use for human food but some reasons block to cultivate it. If plant isn’t suitable for human consumption, it can use for biomass energy or biodiesel industry because of its oil content. Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium L.) plant is seen as weed but it contains 25% to 42% crude oil and %35 protein. It is thought that this plant, which is known as weed and can cause great harm to agricultural productivity when there is no struggle in vegetable production, can provide considerable benefits when it comes to plant production in terms of being able to grow in arid areas and adverse conditions in addition to high oil content in seeds of this plant