Brassica napus (also called rapeseed, oilseed rape or canola) is grown and used worldwide, with the oil used mainly for human consumption and biofuel production,
while the meal remaining after oil extraction can be used as high-protein animal feed. In intensive breeding programs focusing on the reduction of nutritionally undesirable components,
it was possible to create varieties with both low erucic acid and glucosinolate content.
Rapeseed is the only plant species in agReg-SNPdb Plants for which no genome-wide SNP collection is available in Ensembl Plants.
In our previous study, we created a genome-wide collection of rSNPs based on SNPs from the cultivars Zhongshuang11 and Zhongyou821 (280 and 133 samples, respectively) collected and published by
Lu et al. (2019) .
Based on this data, we could include rapeseed in agReg-SNPdb Plants.
Statistics
(Last updated on 08.02.2022)
Number of chromosomes
19
Number of genes
406,325
Number of SNPs
670,028
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