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The species Brassica napus belongs to the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. Rapeseed is a subspecies with the autonym B. napus subsp. napus. [11] It encompasses winter and spring oilseed, vegetable and fodder rape. [12] Siberian kale is a distinct leaf rape form variety (B. napus var. pabularia) which used to be common as a winter-annual ...
In biology, the BBCH-scale for canola describes the phenological development of canola plants using the BBCH-scale. The phenological growth stages and BBCH-identification keys of canola are: Growth stage
Similar growth stages of each plant species are given the same BBCH code. Each code has a description and important growth stages have additional drawings included. The first digit of the scale refers to the principal growth stage. The second digit refers to the secondary growth stage which corresponds to an ordinal number or percentage value.
Close-up of canola blooms Canola flower Rapeseed oil Canola field, Willamette Valley, Oregon, May 2017. Rapeseed oil is one of the oldest known vegetable oils.There are both edible and industrial forms produced from rapeseed, the seed of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae.
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
Genetically modified crops undergo a significant amount of regulation throughout the world. For a GM crop to be approved for release in the US, it must be assessed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) agency within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and may also be assessed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ...
Erucic acid is a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid, denoted 22:1ω9.It has the chemical formula: CH 3 (CH 2) 7 CH=CH(CH 2) 11 CO 2 H.It is prevalent in wallflower seed and other plants in the family Brassicaceae, with a reported content of 20 to 54% in high erucic acid rapeseed oil [2] and 42% in mustard oil.
Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants. Like animal fats, vegetable fats are mixtures of triglycerides. [1] Soybean oil, grape seed oil, and cocoa butter are examples of seed oils, or fats from seeds. Olive oil, palm oil, and rice bran oil are