In 2000, EU regulations for organic animal production set new guidelines for organic pig feeding requiring that this be based on mainly home-grown organic feedstuffs. Doubts were however raised whether these feeding regimes can maintain good growth performance and carcass quality of pigs. Three experiments were carried out to study different organic feeding regimes in weaned piglets and fatteni...

Winter rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) has potential to become an alternate oilseed crop both for edible oil production and energy agriculture (biofuel production) for Turkey. This study was conducted to determine the effect of year, N sources and doses on the yield and quality traits of winter rapeseed in a cereal system in calcareous soils over two seasons, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, in Central An...

Rapeseed is a highly valuable livestock feed as its seeds contain higher percentage of oil and protein compared to other agricultural crops such pea, wheat, barley flour. are rich in oil, with percentages ranging from 21% 33% 42% 48%, respectively. flour now has content that 1.9 4.0 times than barley, pea also produces 1 ton per hectare along 0.41 0.44 tons roughly 0.2 protein. With the introdu...

BACKGROUND Rapeseed is an emerging and promising source of dietary protein for human nutrition and health. We previously found that rapeseed protein displayed atypical nutritional properties in humans, characterized by low bioavailability and a high postprandial biological value. The objective of the present study was to investigate the metabolic fate of rapeseed protein isolate (RPI) and its e...

Olive and rapeseed oil are both considered beneficial for lipid metabolism because of their high content of monounsaturated fatty acids. We compared postprandial lipid metabolism after test meals with these plant oils including hydrogenated plant oil as a reference. Subjects and Methods: Twenty normolipidemic subjects (age: 25.1±4.9 year, M±SEM, body mass index 21.5±0.6 kg/m) underwent three on...

Proteins from underutilized defatted oilseed meals have been proposed as promising sources of bioactive peptides. This study was conducted to determine the anti-inflammatory activities five proteins (flaxseed, rapeseed, sunflower, sesame and soybean) hydrolysed via alcalase, pepsin (at pH 1.3 2.1), respectively, compare these against two dairy (whey, casein). The potential protein hydrolysates ...

In this study we tested whether legumes can improve the growth and N and S nutrition of rapeseed in an intercropping system and compared the effect of mixtures on legume N-fixation and soil N-resources. Rapeseed was cultivated in low N conditions in monocrops using one (R) or two plants (RR) per pot and in mixtures with lupine, clover or vetch. The R monocrop was the most relevant control, intr...

Rapeseed protein consists mainly of the seed storage cruciferin and napin. Cruciferin napin have different nutritional values techno-functional properties. Shifting cruciferin/napin ratio towards either more or could allow diversified applications. The objective this study was to investigate genetic variation in modern winter rapeseed cultivars. contents were analysed by SDS-PAGE. Genetic for b...