A thesis submitted by Ajit Singh Bhatnagar to the University of Mysore for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Food Science under the supervision of Dr. A. G. Gopala Krishna of the Department of Lipid Science & Traditional Foods at the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore, India in October 2014 examines processing oil and extracting bioactive molecules from Indian niger seeds (Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass.).