Abstract
Oil, protein, chlorophyll, and glucosinolate content are quality characteristics considered, in addition to fatty acid composition, when licensing new canola/rapeseed cultivars in Canada, and as such are of primary interest to canola/rapeseed breeders. They are also the characteristics monitored throughout the canola/rapeseed transportation, processing, and marketing system. Ideally, analytical methods for these characteristics should be both reliable and economical. In addition to being accurate and precise, methods should be rapid, simple, and inexpensive since plant breeding and quality control require analysis of large numbers of samples. It is also advantageous, for plant breeding, that methods be nondestructive to allow rearing of subsequent generations. Unfortunately, all of these attributes rarely have been found in one method, and this has led to a continual evolution of analytical methodology. In recent years, near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been investigated as to its suitability for reliable and economical analysis.
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McGregor, D.I. (1990). Application of Near Infrared to the Analysis of Oil, Protein, Chlorophyll, and Glucosinolates in Canola/Rapeseed. In: Shahidi, F. (eds) Canola and Rapeseed. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3912-4_13
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