http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0053809/Index.html
http://www.pri.wur.nl/UK/research/projects/Jatropha
http://library.wur.nl/way/bestanden/clc/1858843.pdf

Jatropha is appearing to be a "wave of the future" in Biodiesel.
See
http://africanagriculture.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-jatropha-excitement-mirage.html
Excerpt:
There is no estimate as to how much jatropha is being cultivated globally, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the trend is accelerating:

The government-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) is planning to have 80,000 acres of jatropha in Sichuan Province alone by 2010.
Renova Biodiesel of Brazil is expected to plant 60,000 acres of jatropha, and reports suggest that other oil companies are considering planting nearly 500,000 acres in the next four years.

D1 Oils, a British company that is considered by many to be the leader in jatropha cultivation, has plantations from Swaziland to Indonesia, and hopes to nearly double its 385,000 acres of jatropha worldwide by the end of 2008.

The Philippine National Oil Co. recently earmarked $14 million for jatropha planting and production, while Indonesia plans to set up 52 biodiesel plants across the country at a cost of $7.3 million.

The cause of the excitement is both environmental and economic. The European Union has mandated that by 2020 all cars must run on 20 percent biodiesel, which burns cleaner than fossil fuels.

China National Oil Corp is on the New York Stock Exchange, with the symbol CEO, and they tried to buy UNOCAL , but the U.S. wouldn't stand for it.
http://www.zoomchina.com.cn/new/content/view/24964/277/

Excerpt:
Oil giants with the same (similar vs the same) financial strength as CNOOC, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, also known as Sinopec (NYSE:SHI) and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have ambitious strategic deployment plans also.

Jatropha curcas is mainly distributed in the Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Hainan provinces. The oil content of its seeds/nuts could be as high as 40%-60% and can be used to produce biodiesel with a better performance than commercial diesel in flash point, condensing point, sulfur content, CO2 emission and particle size.

In July 2006, Sinopec decided to build a biodiesel production plant with an annual output of 100,000 tons in Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, together with an auxiliary energy forest base of 400,000-500,000 mu (up to 128 square miles)."