Jatropha curcas is a drought resistant large shrub or small tree belonging to the genus of euphtorbiaceae, producing oil containing seed. Jatropha curcas is the commonest specie found in Nigeria, but ...

Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

A comprehensive new analysis of water use in biofuel crop production finds that jatropha, an oil-rich plant championed for its ability to grow in arid regions where food crops cannot, is the biggest ...

image: RUDN University chemists have proposed a new method of producing fuel from Jatropha Curcas, a poisonous tropical plant. Natural minerals and a non-toxic additive from vegetable raw materials ...

Earlier this century, jatropha was hailed as a “miracle” biofuel. An unassuming shrubby tree native to Central America, it was wildly promoted as a high-yielding, drought-tolerant biofuel feedstock ...

An extract of the poisonous shrub Jatropha curcas acts as a strong painkiller and may have a mode of action different from conventional analgesics, such as morphine and other pharmaceuticals. An ...

A tip about a folk remedy plant used in India and Africa to ward off bugs has led to the discovery of insect-repelling compounds. Scientists have identified components of Jatropha curcas seed oil that ...

The seeds of the jatropha plant yield oil that can be burned in almost any diesel engine. So is jatropha a solution to the world's search for new energy? Or just another flop in the new generation of ...

LONDON – Large forests planted with a single species of tough small trees could capture enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow climate change and green the world’s deserts at the same time, ...

The stem of Jatropha curcas, a flowering plant native to Mexico and Central America, contains a unique sap in its leaves that can be used to blow bubbles. A video shared to the nature appreciation ...