The Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding
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  • Year: 1995
  • Volume: 55
  • Issue: 2

Local toria cultivars with higher oil and better seed quality

  • Author:
  • A. S. Tiwari, Asha Arora
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 151 to 153

Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya College of Agriculture, Gwalior 474002.

* Present address: Dean Faculty of Agriculture; J. N. Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur 482004.

Abstract

Two local toria cultivars having brown and yellow seed colour were collected from Bhind (M.P.). Both flower earlier than T-9 and mature in 80–90 days. Both have 48.5% oil with 46.0 and 48.2% erucic acid and 104.1 and 115.4 μmol/g seed meal gluccoinolates in the brown and yellow eeeded cultivars, respectively.

Keywords

Brassica campestris var. toria, oil content, glucosinolates, erucic acid