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Safflower

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), also false saffron, is a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual plant in the family Asteraceae. It is one of the world's oldest crops; today, it is commercially cultivated for vegetable oil extracted from the seeds. Plants are 30 to 150 cm (12 to 59 in) tall with globular flower heads having yellow, orange, or…

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Safflower

Nodes115
Edges114
Triples117
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017391
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Safflower

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related to External links · 27
Safflower → Ardeshir, Bibcode, Birgit, California, Calvin, Carthamus, Damania, Food, Geertje, Joel, Lewin, Lützow, Madeleine, Manfred, Media, No, Patrick, PDF, Peter, PMID
related to Climate · 15
Safflower → Additionally, Beside, Botrytis, California, In, India, It, Minimum, Northern Great Plains, Plant, Shortly, The, Therefore, United States, Winter
related to Dye from flowers · 12
Safflower → Carthamin, Carthamus, Carthamus Red, CICN, Due, In, Natural Red, Natural Yellow, No, One, The, Yellow
related to history · 11
Safflower → BC, Chemical, Egyptian, Greek, It, John Chadwick, Linear, Mesopotamia, The, Tutankhamun, Twelfth Dynasty
related to Plant morphology · 11
Safflower → Buds, Commercial, Depending, Each, First, Flowering, Flowers, Individual, Originating, The, These
related to Safflower oil · 7
Safflower → Carthamus, Currently, For, INCI, It, The, There
related to Etymology · 6
Safflower → An, Dutch, English, German, Old French, The
related to Insulin · 5
Safflower → Canadian, However, May, SemBioSys, SemBioSys Genetics
related to Pests · 5
Safflower → Acanthiophilus, Gram, Helicoverpa, Perigaea, Uroleucon
related to Plant development · 5
Safflower → Early, Germination, The, This, When

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seeds plant also oil flower used growing one dye yellow red saffron carthamus crops cm usually rosette flowering soil early

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Saffloweris aborrowing from the Dutch0.90text
linseedinstance ofthis tolerance can also be explained by the higher water use efficiency compared to other oil crops0.80text
mustardinstance ofthis tolerance can also be explained by the higher water use efficiency compared to other oil crops0.80text
Safflowerrelated to Beta-caseinThe0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateIt0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateIndia0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateCalifornia0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateNorthern Great Plains0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateUnited States0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateMinimum0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimatePlant0.60section
Safflowerrelated to ClimateWinter0.60section

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