Pot experiments were conducted during two successive seasons (2011/2012 and 2012/2013) at wire house of the National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt to study the effect of soaking canola seeds with glycinebetaine (GB) (10mM, 15mM and 20mM ) on growth, photosynthetic pigments, osomoprotectants, antioxidant enzymes, seed yield quality and quantity, in fever of antioxidant compounds and fatty acids c...

Field trials of transgenic crops may result in unintentional transgene flow to compatible crop, native, and weedy species. Hybridization outside crop fields may create novel forms with potential negative outcomes for wild and weedy plant populations. We report here the outcome of large outdoor mesocosm studies with canola (Brassica napus), transgenic canola, a sexually compatible weed B. rapa, ...

This study, intending to understand the effects of crop rotation and tillage on blackleg disease, was conducted in a field at Carman, Manitoba, Canada, from 1999 – 2002. Canola, wheat and flax were among the rotated crops. Rotations were performed under conventional or zero-till conditions. The number of infected plants, infected leaves per plant, lesions per plant, and percentage of leaf cover...

INTRODUCTION Canola, which is genetically modified (GM) for tolerance to glyphosate, has the potential to become established as a new glyphosate resistant weed, thus reducing the effectiveness of glyphosate. METHODS Volunteer from dormant canola seeds produced thousands of plants per hectare in the fourth year (2011) following a 2007 crop harvest. This occurred with no additional canola seed ...

An experiment was conducted to deter­ mine apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) and standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) by grow­ ing pigs of P in canola meal, 00­rapeseed meal, and 00­rapeseed expellers. Canola meal and 00­rapeseed meal are the coproducts produced after the residual oil has been solvent extracted from the prepressed canola seeds and 00­rapeseeds, respectively, wh...

The growth of transgenic canola (Brassica napus) expressing a gene for the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase was compared to non-transformed canola exposed to flooding and elevated soil Ni concentration, in situ. In addition, the ability of the plant growth-promoting bacterium Pseudomonas putida UW4, which also expresses ACC deaminase, to facilitate the growth of non-tran...

There are limited data on the DE and ME values and the digestibility of fiber in canola meal, rapeseed meal, and rapeseed expellers fed to pigs. This experiment was conducted to measure the apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of energy, ADF, and NDF and to calculate DE and ME values in canola meal, 00-rapeseed meal, and 00-rapeseed expellers fed to growing pigs. Twenty-three barrows (init...

In order to improve the salt tolerance of some canola genotypes to be suitable for cultivation in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the salt tolerance gene (mt1D) encoding for mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase was introduced to the canola plants using the agrobacterium-mediated transformation. To achieve that, five canola genotypes were selected as a relatively salt tolerance among 15 canola geno...

Four bacterial strains, Pseudomonas chlororaphis (PA-23), Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BS6), Pseudomonas sp. (DF41) and B. amyloliquefaciens (E16) which had been found to have biocontrol activity in vitro assays against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, the causal agent of stem rot of canola, were tested for their efficacy in greenhouse and field conditions. Microscopic studies showed that P. chlororaph...

In addition to the primary use of canola in oil pressing, canola is important as a feed supplement for livestock. We have developed a new approach (termed PiggyBackTM expression) that can be used to enhance the histidine content of canola protein. Using PiggyBackTM expression (a novel recombinant approach for generically improving the amino acid composition in crop plants) the histidine content...