Oilseed rape seed treatments

Uses as fungicide to control a wide range of fungal diseases also used as seed treatment on maize, ornamentals, vegetables, oilseed rape, and other crops. 

Furathiocarb is a systemic insecticide used against soil-dwelling insects and early-sea-son pests and as a seed treatment. It is used in maize, oilseed rape, sugar beet, rice, and vegetables. Its oral LD50 in rats is 53 mg/kg. 

A second approach, when a diverse gene pool is available, is to interbreed species with appropriate traits by standard seed-breeding processes. This has been done very effectively with species of brassica to yield the modem oilseed rape (canola). If necessary, the gene pool can be extended by mutation resulting from chemical treatment or from irradiation. This may produce novel varieties with interesting traits and is the basis of the low-linolenic lines from linseed, and other examples are described in Section 9.3. 

Insecticide seed treatments can give some protection in oilseed rape. Crop covers can be effective. 

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