date:Nov 26, 2012
l, was performed in collaboration with BASF Plant Science. The team believes that further work would be required to establish the efficacy of this method in the field and also to investigate whether it could be applied to other oilseed crops, or successfully combined with alternative approaches to boost yield.
Dr Pete Eastmond at Rothamsted Research said Oilseed rape has become quite a profitable crop in recent years and the scale of cultivation in the UK has increased substantially. Farmers re