Advances in Botanical Research
Rapeseed Breeding

The most up-to-date research on one of the world's highest ranked oilseed crops

Surinder Kumar Gupta (Edited by)

9780123740984, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 2 August 2007

584 pages, Illustrated
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.3 cm, 0.92 kg

Rapeseed is an important oilseed crop belonging to Crucifereae family and grown in subtropical to temperate climate. Recent discoveries have caused the scientific community to respond positively by directing a greater amount of research towards increasing production and improving the quality of rapeseed oil. Today, the annual worldwide production is approximately 7.5 million tons on 4 million acres. Canola ranks 5th in the production of world's oilseed crops following soybean, sunflower, groundnut and cottonseed. Rapeseed Breeding fully explains the miraculous discoveries about the genetic material which have contributed to the growth of this important crop. With contributions from world-renowned researchers from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, this book provides the first scientific reference for scientists interested in the further exploitation of this important crop.

Rapeseed Breeding
Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 45
Dr. S. K. Gupta

1. History, Origin and Evolution
S.K. Gupta and Aditya Pratap

2. Breeding Methods
B. Rai, S.K. Gupta and Aditya Pratap

3. Oil and meal quality improvement
Abha Agnihotri, Deepak Prem, Kadambari Gupta, Gautam Sarkar

4. Development and practical use of DNA markers
Katarzyna Mikolajczyk

5. Self-incompatibility
Ryo Fujimoto and Takeshi Nishio

6. Fingerprinting of oilseed rape cultivars
Vladislav Èurn and Jana Þaludova

7. Haploid and doubled haploid technology
L. Xu, U. Najeeb, G.X. Tang, H.H. Gu, G.Q. Zhang, Y. He, W.J. Zhou

8. Breeding for apetalous rape: inheritance and yield physiology
Lixi Jiang

9. Breeding herbicide tolerant oilseed rape cultivars
Peter B. E. McVetty and Carla D. Zelmer

10. Breeding for Blackleg Resistance- The Biology and Epidemiology
W. G. Dilantha Fernando, Yu Chen and Kaveh Ghanbarnia

11. Development of Alloplasmic Rape
Michal Starzycki, Eligia Starzycki and Jan Pszczola

12. Honeybees and Rapeseed - A Pollinator Plant Interaction
D.P. Abrol

13. Genetic variation and metabolism of glucosinolates
Natalia Bellostas, Anne Dorthe S¸rensen, Jens Christian S¸rensen and Hilmer S¸rensen

14. Mutagenesis: Generation and Evaluation of Induced Mutations
Sanjay J. Jambhulkar

15. Rapeseed Biotechnology
Vinitha Cardoza and C. Neal Stewart, Jr.

16. Gene flow from wild species into rapeseed
Rikke Bagger J¸rgensen

17. Evaluation, maintenance and conservation of germplasm
Ranbir Singh and S.K. Sharma

18. Oil Technology
Bertrand Matthäus

Subject Areas: Horticulture [TVS], Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Agriculture & farming [TV], Plant reproduction & propagation [PSTL], Botany & plant sciences [PST], Genetics [non-medical PSAK], Biology, life sciences [PS]