Fatty acid composition variability of rapeseed oil: classical breeding and biotechnology

Sakhno L.О.

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The problems and achievements in the rapeseed Brassica napus L. var. oleifera breeding directed on the change of fatty acid composition in seed oil with the use of traditional and genetic engineering approaches are analyzed. It is noticed that the combination of biotechnological workings out and methods of classical breeding is the optimum for the further improvement of rapeseed oil composition.

Tsitologiya i Genetika 2010, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 70-80

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Sakhno L.О. Fatty acid composition variability of rapeseed oil: classical breeding and biotechnology, Tsitol Genet., 2010, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 70-80.