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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
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Breeding Better Rape And Lineseed For Western Australia, N N. Roy, J. Reeves
Breeding Better Rape And Lineseed For Western Australia, N N. Roy, J. Reeves
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Rapeseed and linseed—the main oil seed crops grown in the south-west of Western Australia—have both been beset by problems which have limited farmers' interest in them.
Rapeseed was first grown commercially in 1970, when wheat quotas and low prices for other cereals forced farmers to seek alternative cash crops. The area sown to rapeseed increased rapidly, but disastrous outbreaks of the disease blackleg caused rapid decline, and little rapeseed is now sown.
Linseed has been grown in W.A. for more than 30 years. Linseed rust proved disastrous but was overcome by the introduction and breedbreeding of rust-resistant varieties. In recent …