Mustard seeds without mustard flavor.
Climate changes threaten our oilseed crops Professor Barbara Ann Halkier, Head of DynaMo Center of Excellence, University of Copenhagen, is one of the scientists who has worked on developing a new oilseed crop with better properties.
The result is an oilseed crop with improved agronomic traits that is tolerant to global warming.
From model plant to oilseed crop The scientists from the DynaMo Center have invented a technology that can keep the bitter defense compounds out of the seeds while maintaining them in the rest of the plant so that the plant can defend itself against herbivores and pathogens.
Postdoc Svend Roesen Madsen from DynaMo Center and shared first author of the publication in Nature Biotechnology says: "The field trials have shown that we have come a long way.
In the coming years, the scientists from University of Copenhagen and Bayer CropScience will work towards reducing the content of bitter defense compounds in the mustard seeds even further.
"Mustard seeds without mustard flavor: New robust oilseed crop can resist global warming."
ScienceDaily, 28 March 2017.
Mustard seeds without mustard flavor: New robust oilseed crop can resist global warming.
"Mustard seeds without mustard flavor: New robust oilseed crop can resist global warming."