date:Apr 03, 2014
They will also carry out a similar systematic investigation into nutritional and anti-nutritional factors, composition and variation in modern rape varieties.
To help this work the team has established links with the French research facility CREOL at Pessoc. It has a pilot plant that mimics the industrial approach to oil extraction from oil seed crops, but in small batches, enabling it to produce variety-specific OSR meals.
The project is expected to provide the UK feed industry updated inform