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- Title
Biology Briefs.
- Abstract
The article reports that a three-year study of the jojoba plant, which flourishes in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, California, and Mexico, concludes that jojoba oil and its hydrogenated product, a substance like carnauba oil or spermaceti, have marketable properties. Cultivation of the jojoba bush could become the basis for viable Indian-owned and Indian-operated industries, and would provide considerable economic and social benefits to Indian reservations in Arizona and California. As a virtual duplicate of sperm oil, jojoba oil, if produced in industrial quantities, could relieve the world demand for whale products.
- Subjects
ARIZONA; MEXICO; CALIFORNIA; JOJOBA; NATIVE American reservations; JOJOBA products; WHALE oil; ECONOMIC development; SOCIAL development
- Publication
BioScience, 1975, Vol 25, Issue 7, p467
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1297021