Science news articles about 'oil seed rape'

Oil seed rape grown for biofuel in Ireland could help clean up contaminated soils, scientists report.

... shown a decrease in oil, protein and carbohydrate content of oilseed rape seeds in high ozone, ... plant defences against herbivores, in oilseed rape plants. Such changes could influence crop resistance ...

... cause a 30 percent decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of compounds with toxic effects to livestock, but anticarcinogenic effects for humans, within oilseed rape plants.

... by combining heavy metal tolerant bacteria with plants used to make biofuels such as oil seed rape. "We discovered that inoculating the plants with metal resistant bacteria provided them with ...