Brassica carinata (BBCC) is an allotetraploid in Brassicas with unique alleles for agronomic traits and has huge potential as source for biodiesel production. To investigate the genome-wide molecular diversity, population structure and linkage disequilibrium (LD) pattern in this species, we genotyped a panel of 81 accessions of B. carinata with genotyping by sequencing approach DArTseq, generat...

Pollination is the most important ecosystem service provided by insects. The study was conducted to evaluate effect of honeybee pollination on seed yield and related components Brassica carinata Shaya variety at highland Bale (2020 2022). had three treatments; which includes crops caged with honeybees, without open pollinated five replications. experimental design arranged in RCBD. All collecte...

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...

Mustard seeds (Brassica napus) also know as Rape seeds and oil seed rape is very widely cultivated crop throughout the world as major source of oil and protein meal [1]. The oil recovery from mustard seed ranges between 38-44% depending upon the variety and crushing processes [2]. Rapeseed ranks, third in the world production of other oil seed crops [2]. The protein of rapeseed has a well balan...

The storage triacylglycerols in seeds are confined to discrete spherical organelles called oil bodies (10). Each oil body of 1 ,um diameter contains a matrix of triacylglycerols surrounded by a layer of phospholipids embedded with abundant and unique proteins called oleosins (2, 6). Oleosins are hydrophobic proteins of low Mr ranging from 16 to 26 kD, depending on the isoforms and plant species...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs are important regulators of plant development and seed formation, yet their population and abundance in the oil crop Brassica napus are still not well understood, especially at different developmental stages and among cultivars with varied seed oil contents. Here, we systematically analyzed the small RNA expression profiles of Brassica napus seeds a...

Carinata (Brassica carinata A. Braun), a non-food oilseed crop and an alternative bio-jet fuel feedstock, has received attention for its potential as low-input option production in the semi-arid region of Northern Great Plains United States. Research addressing impacts nitrogen (N) sulfur (S) fertilizers on soils greenhouse gas (GHG; CO2, N2O, CH4) emissions from are limited. Thus, objective th...