Arable land covers a large part of the European landscape, and its biodiversity is declining rapidly due to agricultural intensification. Among most threatened groups organisms are insectivorous ground-foraging farmland birds. To reverse their decline, it necessary understand impact agriculture on factors potentially shaping populations. This study therefore evaluates invertebrate food availabi...

BACKGROUND Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important oil crop in the world, and increasing its oil content is a major breeding goal. The studies on seed structure and characteristics of different oil content rapeseed could help us to understand the biological mechanism of lipid accumulation, and be helpful for rapeseed breeding. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here we report on the seed ult...

The article analyzes changes in the fatty acid composition of spring rapeseed represented by Trapper and Siberian varieties after their treatment with «Huminatrin» «Beres-8». cultivated region was studied gas-liquid chromatography. contains 19 acids a chain length 12 to 24 carbon atoms. preparations containing humic caused different reactions varieties. variety showed decrease oil content proce...

I in the chain sow diet --> blood serum of sow --> sow milk --> piglet serum was investigated in two experiments with a total of eighty-one sows and their piglets. In experiments conducted during the last trimester of gravidity and the 28 d of lactation, diets with glucosinolates (1.9 mmol/kg diet via 100 g ground rapeseed/kg diet (Expt 1) and 2.1 and 4.2 mmol/kg diet via 75 and 150 g rapeseed ...

Evaluation of abundantly available agro-industrial by-products for their bioactive compounds and biological activities is beneficial in particular for the food and pharmaceutical industries. In this study, rapeseed meal, cottonseed meal and soybean meal were investigated for the presence of bioactive compounds and antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, xanthine oxidase and tyrosinase inhibitory activi...

Sowing time, as an element, is important to improving the adaptation of cultivars environmental conditions and achieving high seed yields. The field experiment was conducted from 2018–2019 at Experimental Station Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy. experimental design included treatments with different sowing dates: eight dates in 2018 10 2019. first spring rapeseed carried out when...

Harlequin bug, Murgantia histrionica (Hahn) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is a piercing-sucking pest of cole crops, causing cosmetic damage in low populations, while heavy pest pressure can kill plants or entire fields. Field studies were conducted to evaluate a trap crop for control of harlequin bug in collard. Field-cage choice tests found that potential trap crop plant species, mustard (Brassic...

Crop infection is a stress factor for plants. The development and spread of fungal phytopathogens (Fusarium, Bipolaris, Alternaria, etc.) the root system leads to significant decrease in both quantitative, qualitative parameters grain crop productivity. current paper has presented data (2011–2018) on study subsoil parts spring wheat plants when they are damaged by rots various etiologies, depen...

Winter rapeseed seedlings are susceptible to low temperature during overwintering in Northwest China, leading reduced crops production. Freezing stress is one of the main environmental stresses China from late autumn early spring, an eventful period for overwinter survival rate winter rapeseed. However, molecular mechanism freezing tolerance formation still very backward In this study, using a ...