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Tag - Brassica napus
Alun Salt
Fields of yellow: getting the nutrient balance right in oilseed rape
How Brassica napus takes up phosphorus can also change how it takes up other nutrients.
Liam Elliott
The bzh root system reacts highly economically when N is scarce
In oilseed rape (Brassica napus) bzh dwarf plants have improved nitrogen (N) uptake, N-utilization and N-use efficiency compared to normal types. Is this due to their shoots, or do roots play a role?
Fi Gennu
Antibiotics impact plant traits
Antibiotics used in the livestock industry are released to agricultural fields via grazing animals and manure. From there, they may affect human health due to consumption of antibiotic-exposed crop plants or drinking...
AoBPLANTS
Directional gene conversion and homogenization of rDNA shapes evolution in Brassica
Brassica napus (AACC, oilseed rape) is an allotetraploid species derived from the putative progenitor diploid species B.rapa (AA) and B. oleracea (CC). To assess the influence of intensive breeding conditions on the...
botanyone
Seedling root traits correlate with yield in Brassica napus
Aiming to discover an optimum, cost-effective technique which can be applied to the selection of root traits for crop improvement, Thomas et al. screen seedling root traits of elite oilseed rape (OSR; Brassica napus)...
Zinc stress and ROS and RNS metabolism of roots
Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient naturally present in soils, but anthropogenic activities can lead to accumulation in the environment and resulting damage to plants. Heavy metals such as Zn can induce oxidative...
Flow–Force theory and modelling nitrogen uptake (Viewpoint)
Flow–Force theory can be combined easily with changes in the nitrate influx rate induced by climatic and in planta factors formalized by polynomial curves.
Nitrate uptake modelling in plants: root activity
Using a thermodynamic flow–force interpretation of nitrate uptake isotherms, Malagoli and Le Deunff develop a functional– structural model to predict N uptake in winter oilseed rape, Brassica napus. The structural...
Nitrate uptake modelling in plants: functional components
Difficulties in linking the various regulations of nitrate transport acting at different levels of time and on different spatial scales have hindered the development of models for nitrogen uptake. Le Deunff and Malagoli...
Physical mapping of a male-sterile locus in Brassica
Spontaneous male sterility is an advantageous trait for both producing hybrids and understanding the developmental process of the male reproductive unit in many crops. Lu et al. use a map-based cloning strategy together...
QTLs for seed yield under different P supply
Low levels of phosphorous in soils seriously limit seed production of Brassica napus. Ding et al. investigate phenotypic variation of seed yield and yield-related traits in B. napus plants grown with contrasting...
