Cuphea procumbens

Slabas, AR., Roberts, P.A., Ormesher, J., and Hammond, E.W. Cuphea procumbens -A model system for studying the mechanism of medium-chain fatty acid biosynthesis in plants, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 711 (1982), 411-420. 

Cuphea. Cuphea plants furnish seeds with oils that may be rich in Cg, Cjo, C12, or Ci4 acids. They generally contain >30% of oil and are expected to produce a commercial crop in the period 2005-2010. Problems of seed dormancy and seed shattering have already been solved. As markets for lauric oils already exist, there should be no difficulty in substituting cuphea oUs. More recently, it has been reported that cuphea will be used as a commercial source of lauric acid from 2003 onward (30, 102, 103). Pandey et al. (104) have described the oil (17-29%) from Cupea procumbens containing 89-95% of decanoic acid. See also Section 9.2. 

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