Development of Canola

Glick BR, C Liu, S Ghosh, EB Dumbroff (1997) Early development of canola seedlings in the presence of the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Pseudomonas putida GR12-2. Soil Biol Biochem 29 1233-1239. 

As both Sunola crops are special, care must be taken against contamination with traditional sunflower or canola. However, this is rarely the case, as Sunola is grown in northern areas of the United States, where regular sunflower is not grown and in areas of southern Canada that are too hot and dry for the development of canola crops. 

The changeover to rapeseed cultivars that produce seed oil low in erucic acid is essentially complete in most European countries. Cultivars low in both erucic acid and glucosinolates are being developed in several European countries. The development of canola cultivars has been somewhat slower in Europe than in Canada due to the necessity of transferring the canola characteristics to highly developed cultivars of winter forms of the crop. Some commercial production of winter canola is expected in Europe in... 

Most of the rapeseed produced in the Orient is of the traditional kind, high in both erucic acid and glucosinolates. Little attention appears to have been given to the development of canola cultivars. Perhaps the need to increase food supplies discourages the deployment of resources for work on quality. Prakash (1980) suggests that alteration of the composition of the oil and meal is one of a number of possible future trends in India. The recent increase in international contacts probably will stimulate the development of canola cultivars in China. 

Wong, R.S., Patel, J. Swanson, E. and Grant, I. (1991) Development of canola with novel fatty acid profile, in Biotechnology of Plant Fats and Oils, ed. J. Rattray, American Oil Chemists Society, Champaign, IL, pp. 144-150. 

Dr. Baldur Stefansson and Dr. Keith Downey are credited with the development of canola a low erucic acid cultivar of rapeseed (Stefansson et al., 1961). 

N.A. Michael Eskin is a professor and associate dean in the Department of Human Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Human Ecology, University of Manitoba, Canada. He has done extensive research on edible oils and was involved in the early development of canola oil. Dr. Eskin has published 120 research papers and 11 books including Canola Chemistry, Production, Processing and Utilization with Jim Daun and Dave Hickling released in May 2011 by AOCS Press. He has garnered a number of awards including the AOCS Timothy Mount s Award for excellence in the science and technology of edible oils and the Canadian Institute of Food... 

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