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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

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1978

Rapeseed

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Wesreo : A Blackleg Resistant Rapeseed, N N. Roy Jan 1978

Wesreo : A Blackleg Resistant Rapeseed, N N. Roy

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

A new rapeseed variety, Wesreo, has recently been released after an unusually rapid and successful breeding programme by the Department of Agriculture.

Wesreo has fairly good resistance to the disease blackleg, which virtually halted the expanding rapeseed industry in 1973.