NIAB Innovation Farm is demonstrating the different approaches – chemical and genetic – to reducing pod shatter in oilseed rape so improving harvest yield and oil quality, and reducing volunteer incidence in subsequent crops.
Breeding for pod shatter
Spring Oilseed Rape
Variety: Tamarin
Breeder: Senova
Brassica carinata
Partner: John Innes Centre
Using anti-pod shatter treatments
Winter Oilseed Rape
