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Brassica napus is an oilseed crop of major importance worldwide and a fodder or vegetable crop of regional importance; it is grown as an annual or biennial plant in temperate areas of the world. Together with oilseed forms of B. rapa and B. juncea, B. napus accounted for 10.5% (22.12 metric tons) of the total world oilseed production in 1989–1990 (Shahidi 1990). For vegetable oils, Brassica oilseeds represented 16% of the world’s total production in 1989 behind soybean and palm kernel/palm oil. Major producers are the EEC countries, China, India, Japan, and Canada (Shahidi 1990). Because of the superior health and nutritional attributes of this vegetable oil, worldwide production is anticipated to increase. The use of B. napus as a fodder or root crop [rutabaga or swede, ssp. rapifera (Metzg.) Sinsk] is limited in distribution to northern Europe, Russia, the Ukraine, and New Zealand. Small-scale production of rutabaga as a table vegetable occurs in the USA and Canada (Shattuck and Proudfoot 1989); leafy, heading vegetable forms (e.g., Hakuran) have been developed and are grown in Japan (Nishi 1980).
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Jourdan, P. (1994). Resynthesis of Brassica napus Through Protoplast Fusion Between B. oleracea and B. rapa . In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Somatic Hybridization in Crop Improvement I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57945-5_19
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