Evolve roundup ready® high erucic acid, low glucosinolate hybrid summer rape

Abstract

Evolve is the world’s first ogu INRA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique) CMS (cytoplasmic male sterility) hybrid summer rape (Brassica napus L.) Roundup Ready® high erucic acid, low glucosinolate cultivar. On average, Evolve yielded 12.4% more seed, 6 g kg−1 more seed oil, and 5 g kg−1 less meal protein than Red River 1861, an open-pollinated Roundup Ready® high erucic acid, low glucosinolate summer rape. Evolve has an erucic acid content of 52.3% in isolated field trials of high erucic acid rapeseed genotypes and is adapted to the southern B. napus growing regions of western Canada.