Sentences with phrase «oilseed rape»

Back when the bright yellow flowers were still known as Rape or Oilseed rape, Brassica napus produced a bitter oil, unsuitable for human consumption and used mainly to lubricate machines.

There is no doubt that the proposed restriction on the use of these neonicotinoids on nectar - and pollen - rich crops such as oilseed rape will reduce a potentially serious risk to bees.

Distribution and metabolism of D / L -, L - and Dglufosinate in transgenic, glufosinate tolerant crops of maize (Zea mays L ssp mays) and oilseed rape (Brassica napusL var napus).

Although GM beets and oilseed rape may harm wildlife, it's difficult to predict the overall impact of GM crops from the findings, described in eight papers published today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

The margins of GM oilseed rape plots, for example, had 24 % fewer butterflies.

Compared to fields growing conventional crops, those planted with GM varieties of beet and oilseed rape (canola) have fewer weeds — which is a goal of genetic engineering.

In early June, a farmer in southern England used weed killer to destroy 26 acres of engineered oilseed rape produced by a biotech company called AgrEvo, because his farm's trustees were opposed to the trials and were worried that the rape might contaminate nearby organic crops.

Further tests showed that the activity and function of SOBER1 is not restricted to the weed Arabidopsis thaliana, but also exists in a plant called oilseed rape demonstrating that the findings of Chory's lab could be applied to agricultural crops and biofuel resources.

«Drilling [planting] has got earlier for wheat but a bit later for the oilseed rape,» he said.

Consequently I chose plant biochemistry as my area of study for my PhD, investigating carbon partitioning in oilseed rape embryos at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich.

The IFR is working with colleagues at the University of York and the John Innes Centre to see whether there are ways of breeding more «biofuel - ready» varieties of oilseed rape, with the same yields of oilseed but with more amenable straw.

In the main, oilseed rape has been bred to improve oilseed yield and disease resistance, without paying much attention to the straw.

German river levels lowest in a century Some three - quarters of oilseed rape goes into the country's biodiesel industry — the biggest in the 27 - nation bloc — leaving it critically short of feedstock and either forcing imports or cutting production, with a consequent knock - on effect on the country's and the European Union's efforts to cut climate - changing carbon emissions.

Straw from crops such as wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape is seen as a potential source of biomass for second generation biofuel production.

As oilseed rape faces declining yields and increasing attacks from pest and disease, UK farming needs another break crop to ensure the sustainability of its agriculture and maintain cereal yields.

They can also answer questions by referring to information given in earlier applications or to recognised databases containing details of similar experiments, such as exist for experiments with oilseed rape.

In January, the European Food Safety Authority in Parma, Italy, Europe's food - chain risk - assessment body, concluded that three commonly used neonicotinoids — clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam — should not be used where they might end up in crops that attract bees, such as oilseed rape and maize.

That goes for both wild bees that forage on oilseed rape, and those that don't — though populations of known foragers were three times as likely to disappear.

Researchers at the University of York mapped population data for 62 wild bee species sprinkled across the United Kingdom along with neonicotinoid treatment in local oilseed rape (Brassica napus) fields over 18 years.

In 1998, when the Field Scale Evaluation programme was introduced, maize, oilseed rape (winter and spring varieties) and beet (fodder and sugar varieties), were close to meeting all of these tests.

The results of all the Field Scale Evaluations, except for those involving winter oilseed rape, were published in October 2003.

It was achieved by conventional breeding methods to provide an oilseed rape (OSR) oil with a specific fatty acid profile benefiting food processors, foodservice operators and consumers.

HOLL refers to a range of winter oilseed rape (WOSR) varieties with a HIGH OLEIC AND LOW LINOLENIC (HOLL) fatty acid oil profile.

Produced from a new variety of oilseed rape — the familiar yellow - flowered crop that is the third - largest source of the world's vegetable oil needs — the new oil, -LSB-...]

Feral oilseed rape populations in Canada are resistant to three herbicides and have become one of the most troublesome weeds27.

Oilseed rape with genetically induced resistance to insects has been reported to damage beneficial insects such as honey bees26.