Scientists have cracked the problem of pod shatter in brassica crops such as rapeseed or canola. Just before harvest, the pods are prone to shatter, causing a 10-25 percent loss of seeds and up to ...

And while I’m on about saving seed, some years ago, we chanced upon a wild brassica growing at the back of a Devon beach, so took a couple of seed pods.

This includes valuable brassica seeds, including most of the world’s supply of European cabbage, Brussels sprouts, rutabaga, and turnip seed, and a quarter of the radish, Chinese cabbage, and other ...

Brassica seeds are cold-pressed to remove oils. Immune peptides are isolated from the defatted seed cake via ultrafiltration. The resulting bioactive proteins are spray-dried into a fine powder.

Specialty seed companies from as far away as Japan and the Netherlands have testified in favor of the bill, saying there are few other places in the world that brassica seeds can be grown.