Genetic innovation
Plant breeding has improved yields, agronomic performance and climate resilience of niche, high-value oil-producing crops with specialist applications in the health and nutrition sector, including pharmaceutical and superfoods sectors, and uses in the manufacturing industries. Some of these crops could provide new sources of essential fatty acids which are needed to support our nervous, cardio-vascular and immune systems, but cannot be made in the body and must therefore be supplied in our diets.
Oilseed rape (Brassica napus)
Varieties included in the NIAB Innovation Farm exhibit:
- DK imagine CL (Clearfield lines)
- CWH 189D
- CWH194
- CWH 166
- MDS 10
- MDS 14
- MDS 15
- MDS 20 (Visitve & Clearfield line)
- Tapidor, Cabriolet and Low PUFA (polyunsaturate fatty acid) Line 1
- Maplus
- Markant
- Palmedor
- Eraton
- Roxanne & TCI 5006
- NK Molton
