Carinata (Brassica carinata) is an industrial oilseed feedstock for renewable fuels grown as a winter crop in the southeast US, which may provide new rotation alternative and benefits water quality. However, effects of carinata on quantity quality at watershed local scales are unknown. In this study, we use Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to assess potential influence balance components, nutr...

Several species from the Brassica genus are very important agricultural crops in different parts of the world and are also known to be heavy metal accumulators. There have been a large number of studies regarding the tolerance, uptake and defense mechanism in several of these species, notably Brassica juncea and B. napus, against the stress induced by heavy metals. Numerous studies have also be...

The micromorphological typology of seed surfaces was investigated in rapid-cycling Brassica (RCBr) forms, using scanning electron microscopy. Four types of basic ornamentation pattern were recognized: reticulate (B. rapa, B. juncea), reticulate-foveolate (B. nigra), randomly reticulate (B. oleracea, B. napus) and reticulate-rugose (B. carinata). The seed coats showed variation in the shape and ...

Polyploidization has played an important role in plant evolution and speciation, and newly formed allopolyploids have experienced rapid transcriptomic changes. Here, we compared the transcriptomic differences between a synthetic Brassica allohexaploid and its parents using a high-throughput RNA-Seq method. A total of 35,644,409 sequence reads were generated, and 32,642 genes were aligned from t...

Physiological basis of genetic variability in drought response and its association with yieldand related indices is not clear in Brassica. In this study 36 accessions belonged to sevenspecies of Brassica were evaluated under normal, moderate and severe stress environments.Physiological traits along with seed yield, seed yield components, oil content and two selectionindices (stress tolerance in...

Ethiopia is the center of origin for Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata). The crop one oldest oil crops and farmers in highlands country grow as a leafy vegetable their gardens. However, no attempt has been made to assess association characters path analysis leaf. This study was conducted traits among yield related determine direct indirect effects traits. A total 36 genotypes were evaluated ...

The adoption of a bioenergy crop is affected by various factors, including but not limited to the characteristics farmers, farm economics, market forces, and physical environment. This study develops spatially explicit agent-based model for ascertaining rate carinata (Brassica carinata) among farmers in Little River Experimental Watershed located southern state Georgia United States. Each farme...