Mercury high erucic low glucosinolate summer rape

Reducing Damage to Oilseed Rape by Woodpigeons: I. Trials with Cinnamamide; Ii. Breeding High Glucosinolate Varieties

Development of new restorer lines for CMS ogura system with the use of resynthesized oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

Resynthesized (RS) oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is potentially of great interest for hybrid breeding. However, a major problem with the direct use of RS B. napus is the quality of seed oil (high level of erucic acid) and seed meal (high glucosinolate content), which does not comply with double-low quality oilseed rape. Thus, additional developments are needed before RS B. napus can be intro...

Oil, erucic acid, and glucosinolate contents in winter hardy rapeseed germplasms

The US industry uses :18 million kg of high erucic acid oil annually, mostly from imports. Therefore, a large overall market potential exists for development of annually renewable domestic sources of erucic acid. The present research was conducted to characterize the winter hardy rapeseed germplasm for oil, erucic acid, and glucosinolate contents for use in breeding programs to develop commerci...

Erucic acid as the factor in rape oil affecting adrenal cholesterol in the rat.

In a previous communication it was reported that feeding rape oil to rats for a month as 25 per cent by weight of their diet caused a 3to 4-fold increase in the amount of cholesterol in their adrenals (1). A similar effect has been obtained by feeding large amounts of turnip seed oil, nasturtium seed oil, or a weed seed oil obtained chiefly from species of Brassica. Other fats and oils have gen...

Hidden Effects of Seed Quality Breeding on Germination in Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus L.)

Intense selection for specific seed qualities in winter oilseed rape breeding has had an inadvertent negative influence on seed germination performance. In a panel of 215 diverse winter oilseed rape varieties spanning over 50 years of breeding progress in winter-type rapeseed, we found that low seed erucic acid content and reduced seed glucosinolate content were significantly related with prolo...