Dear Editor,Brassica napus L.,commonly known as rapeseed,canola,or oilseed rape,is the world’s third oilseed crop and accounts for12%of major worldwide oil production(FAO,2022).Rapeseed provides not only healthy and ...Dear Editor,Brassica napus L.,commonly known as rapeseed,canola,or oilseed rape,is the world’s third oilseed crop and accounts for12%of major worldwide oil production(FAO,2022).Rapeseed provides not only healthy and nutritionally balanced edible oil for humans but also protein-rich fodder for animals and renewable materials for biodiesel and industrial applications.Polyunsaturated fatty acids(PUFAs),including omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids,are mainly essential fatty acids and play a crucial role in the human diet,as humans obtain them from dietary sources.Most crop seeds and vegetable oils,including canola,soybean,corn,and sunflower oils,are major sources of omega-6 fatty acids in the form of linoleic acid and have low proportions of omega-3 fatty acids(Saini and Keum,2018).Several key enzymes are responsible for the synthesis of PUFAs,such as FAD2,which converts oleic acid to linoleic acid,and FAD3,which converts linoleic acid to linolenic acid(Yadav et al.,1993;Okuley et al.,1994).展开更多
Dear Editor,Brassica carinata(Bc Bc Cc Cc),an important agricultural crop cultivated for the edible oil,leafy vegetable,high-value protein stockfeed,and biofuel markets,contains favorable genetic variation that can be...Dear Editor,Brassica carinata(Bc Bc Cc Cc),an important agricultural crop cultivated for the edible oil,leafy vegetable,high-value protein stockfeed,and biofuel markets,contains favorable genetic variation that can be exploited to develop climate-resilient and wateruse-efficient Brassica crops(Seepaul et al.,2021).Although several quantitative trait loci(QTLs)for flowering time,seed quality traits,and pod shatter resistance(PSR)have been identified based on high-density genetic linkage maps(Zou et al.,2014;Raman et al.,2017;Zhang et al.,2017),this information alone is insufficient for practical genetic improvement and breeding applications.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171982 and 31970564)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF1000100)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(2662023PY004)the UK Department for Environment,Food and Rural Affairs Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network(OREGIN)(CH0110).
文摘Dear Editor,Brassica napus L.,commonly known as rapeseed,canola,or oilseed rape,is the world’s third oilseed crop and accounts for12%of major worldwide oil production(FAO,2022).Rapeseed provides not only healthy and nutritionally balanced edible oil for humans but also protein-rich fodder for animals and renewable materials for biodiesel and industrial applications.Polyunsaturated fatty acids(PUFAs),including omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids,are mainly essential fatty acids and play a crucial role in the human diet,as humans obtain them from dietary sources.Most crop seeds and vegetable oils,including canola,soybean,corn,and sunflower oils,are major sources of omega-6 fatty acids in the form of linoleic acid and have low proportions of omega-3 fatty acids(Saini and Keum,2018).Several key enzymes are responsible for the synthesis of PUFAs,such as FAD2,which converts oleic acid to linoleic acid,and FAD3,which converts linoleic acid to linolenic acid(Yadav et al.,1993;Okuley et al.,1994).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970564,32171982,and 32000397)the Grains Research and Development Corporation (DAN00208 to H.R.)+1 种基金the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/L002124/1 and BB/R019819/1 to I.B.)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2662023PY004).
文摘Dear Editor,Brassica carinata(Bc Bc Cc Cc),an important agricultural crop cultivated for the edible oil,leafy vegetable,high-value protein stockfeed,and biofuel markets,contains favorable genetic variation that can be exploited to develop climate-resilient and wateruse-efficient Brassica crops(Seepaul et al.,2021).Although several quantitative trait loci(QTLs)for flowering time,seed quality traits,and pod shatter resistance(PSR)have been identified based on high-density genetic linkage maps(Zou et al.,2014;Raman et al.,2017;Zhang et al.,2017),this information alone is insufficient for practical genetic improvement and breeding applications.
