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The brassicas are one of the most important and widely distributed crop types in the world. They are grown in a wide range of climatic regions from the equator to the tropics. The various different Brassica species and genotypes can be cultivated as vegetable or oilseed crops for human nutrition, as forage crops for domestic animals, and as industrial crops to supply oleochemicals. In terms of both amounts of production and economic value, the oilseed brassicas are the most important of these crop types (Downey and Röbbelen 1989). The dominant Brassica oilseed crop species in commercial agriculture are the amphidiploids, B. napus (rapeseed or canola) and B. juncea (Indian mustard) and the diploid B. rapa (turnip or turnip rape). Although different Brassica oilseed species may be preferentially grown in different parts of the world, by far the most important crop for commercial traded oil production is rapeseed. The main centres of rapeseed production are China (11.3 Mt — million tonnes), European Union (8.9 Mt), Canada (5.1 Mt) and India (3.7 Mt).
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Murphy, D.J. (2004). Genetic Engineering of Lipid Composition. In: Pua, EC., Douglas, C.J. (eds) Brassica. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06164-0_15
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