Science news articles about 'rape plants'

... , a family of compounds involved in plant defences against herbivores, in oilseed rape plants. Such changes could influence crop resistance to insect pests, or the palatability of food crops. As ...

... 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.

... time it takes to grow successive crops of plants to clean up an area. Now scientists may have come ... bacteria which colonise the leaves of the oil seed rape plants and one metal tolerant type that lives ...