Breeding of turnip rape with yellow seeds at VNIIMK

As a result of many years breeding works, using samples of a world collection of VNIIR, the unique cultivars and breeding material of winter turnip rape were developed. They possess a complex of the most important commercially valuable traits: high seed yield being in certain years up to 3.5 t/ha; oil content of seeds up to 49.0-50.0%, in optimal conditions up to 52.0-53.0%; yellow seed percentage of cultivars and samples up to 95-100%; content of undesirable glucosinolates in seeds does not exceed 13-15 mcM/g, that is two times lower than in working international standards; oil and fatty composition of oil is similar to rape oil of food usage; short (in comparison to winter rapeseed) vegetative period; high frost- and winter hardiness. Yellow-seeded winter turnip rape is a source of oil of high quality and a unique component of forage for poultry.