The oilseed crop improvement for Brassica rapa L. (field mustard) is considered to be important in respect of yield production coupled with unsaturated fatty acids the existing cultivars. Hence, genetic diversity, and nutritional components 14 B. cultivars were evaluated based on their attributes acid profiles at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. These differed significa...

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...

Crambe (Crambe abyssinica Hochst R.E. Fries) has recently attracted a renewed interest by the bio-based industry due to its high seed oil content (up 57%), particularly erucic acid 65% of total fatty acids), short growing cycle, and drought tolerance. A field trial was conducted during four consecutive seasons (2016−19) in Greece, Poland, Italy. The commercial crambe variety (Galactica) sown ea...

A number of studies have been conducted on hybridization between transgenic Brassica napus and B. rapa or backcross of F1 hybrid to their parents. However, trait changes must be analyzed to evaluate hybrid sustainability in nature. In the present study, B. rapa and transgenic (BrAGL20) B. napus were hybridized to verify the early flowering phenomenon of F1 hybrids, and F1 hybrid traits were ana...

An efficient microspore culture protocol was used to rapidly produce homozygous doubled haploid (DH) progeny of crosses between low erucic canola and high erucic resynthesized rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). Microspores of Canadian cultivars ‘Excel’ and ‘Profit’ as well as three F1 hybrids with the resynthetic line RS239 were treated with colchicine immediately after isolation. Flow cytometry was...

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