| Family |
Brassicaceae |
| Scientific name |
Brassica napus L. |
| Synonyms |
Brassica campestris L. forma glauca (Roxburgh) Prain; Brassica campestris
L. forma quadrivalvis (Hooker f. & Thomson) Prain; Brassica campestris
L. forma trilocularis (Roxburgh) Prain; Brassica campestris L. subsp. napus
(L.) Hooker f. & Thomson; Brassica campestris L. subvar. ulti Prain;
Brassica campestris L. var. glauca (Roxburgh) Duthie & Fuller; Brassica
campestris L. var. napobrassica (L.) de Candolle; Brassica campestris L.
var. napus (L.) Babington; Brassica campestris L. var. pabularia de Candolle;
Brassica campestris L. var. trilocularis (Roxburgh) Duthie & Fuller;
Brassica napobrassica (L.) Miller; Brassica napus L. forma dolichocarpa
O. E. Schulz; Brassica napus L. forma flava de Candolle; Brassica napus
L. forma micrantha O. E. Schulz; Brassica napus L. forma nigricans de Candolle;
Brassica napus L. subsp. napobrassica (L.) Jafri; Brassica napus L. subsp.
oleifera Metzger;Brassica napus L. subsp. rapifera Metzger; Brassica napus
L. var. alba (de Candolle) Alefeld; Brassica napus L. var. annua Metzger;
Brassica napus L. var. arabica O. E. Schulz; Brassica napus L. var. biennis
Metzger; Brassica napus L. var. brevirostris Borbás; Brassica napus L.
var. esculenta de Candolle; Brassica napus L. var. glauca (Roxburgh) O.
E. Schulz; Brassica napus L. var. hyemalis Alefeld; Brassica napus L. var.
italica Alefeld; Brassica napus L. var. leptorhiza Spach; Brassica napus
L. var. napobrassica (L.) Reichenbach; Brassica napus L. var. nigricans
(de Candolle) Alefeld; Brassica napus L. var. oleifera de Candolle; Brassica
napus L. var. pabularia (de Candolle) Reichenbach; Brassica napus L. var.
quadrivalvis (Hooker f. & Thomson) O. E. Schulz; Brassica napus L.
var. rossica Alefeld; Brassica napus L. var. rutila Alefeld; Brassica napus
L. var. sarcorhiza Spach; Brassica napus L. var. sativa Schkuhr; Brassica
napus L. var. sylvestris Schkuhr; Brassica napus L. var. syntomocarpa O.
E. Schulz; Brassica napus L. var. trimestris Boenninghausen; Brassica napus
L. var. typica Pospichal; Brassica napus L. var. ulti (Prain) O. E. Schulz;
Brassica oleifera Moench; Brassica oleracea L. var. arvensis Duchesne;
Brassica oleracea L. var. napobrassica L.; Brassica oleracea L. var. napus
(L.) Sprengel; Brassica oleracea L. var. oleifera Sprengel; Brassica oleracea
L. var. praecox (Waldstein & Kitaibel ex de Candolle) Sprengel; Brassica
praecox Waldstein & Kitaibel ex de Candolle; Brassica quadrivalvis
Hooker f. & Thomson; Brassica trilocularis (Roxburgh) Hooker f. &
Thomson; Napus oleifera Schimper & Spenner ex Spenner; Rapa napus (L.)
Miller; Raphanus napus (L.) Crantz; Sinapis dichotoma Roxburgh ex Fleming;
Sinapis glauca Roxburgh; Sinapis napus (L.) Brotero; Sinapis trilocularis
Roxburgh |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) seiyo abura-na (西洋油菜, セイヨウアブラナ [meaning: European
oil weed]), natane (ナタネ, 菜種 [meaning: oil seed]) |
| (English common name) annual rape, oilseed rape, rape, summer rape |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) [native] Eurasia |
| Habitat |
Roadside, field, riverside |
| Chromosomal number |
n=19, 2n=38 |
| Description |
Plants electing 30-100cm tall. Flowers yellow petals 10-12mm long, flowering
in April to May (also in October to November). Annual or winter annual
plants. |
| Reference |
Brassica napus L. |
| Brassica napus Linnaeus |
| Brassica napus L. |
| Substituted O-(aminosulfonyl)-glycolic anilides (US Patent 3870740/1975) |
| Herbicidal mono and disubstituted amides of phenoxyaliphatic carboxylic acids (US Patent 3900308/1975) |
| Hard fat product (US Patent 3991088/1976) |
| Pest control agent (US Patent 3973944/1976) |
| Gem-bis amide herbicide antidote compositions and methods of use (US Patent 3982923/1976) |
| Synergistic weed control composition (US Patent 4008069/1977) |
| Thiol carbamates (US Patent 4021222/1977) |
| O-aminosulfonylglycolic amides (US Patent 4009192/1977) |
| Substituted pyrazoles (US Patent 4008249/1977) |
| Sulfide herbicide antidote compositions and method of use (US Patent 4021228/1977) |
| Vegetable protein isolate and method of producing same (US Patent 4051114/1977) |
| Isolation of cytoplasmic protein using chitasan (US Patent 4072666/1978) |
| Method of producing animal feed products (US Patent 4973490/1990) |
| Processes for separation of sterol compounds from fluid mixtures using substantially insoluble compounds (US Patent 5063070/1991) |
| Process for the removal of sterol compounds and saturated fatty acids (US Patent 5091117/1992) |
| Cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical compositions and methods for their use (US Patent 5268175/1993) |
| Process for producing a reduced calorie fat mimetic composition (US Patent 5288884/1994) |
| Process for producing a reduced calorie lipid composition (US Patent 5298637/1994) |
| Nucleotide sequence of soybean stearoyl-ACP desaturase gene (US Patent 5443974/1995) |
| Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting a reduced saturated fatty acid content (US Patent 5387758/1995) |
| Edible endogenous vegetable oil extracted from rapeseeds of reduced stearic and palmitic saturated fatty acid content (US Patent 5434283/1995) |
| Topical cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical compositions (US Patent 5431923/1995) |
| Protection of plants against plant pathogens (US Patent 5422108/1995) |
| Synthetic storage proteins with defined structure containing programmable levels of essential amino acids for improvement of the nutritional value of plants (US Patent 5559223/1996) |
| β-ketoacyl-ACP synthetase II genes from plants (US Patent 5500361/1996) |
| Nucleotide sequences of soybean acyl-ACP thioesterase genes (US Patent 5530186/1996) |
| Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting a reduced saturated fatty acid content (US Patent 5545821/1996) |
| Environmental friendly food grade lubricants from edible triglycerides containing FDA approved additives (US Patent 5538654/1996) |
| Seeds, plants and oils with altered fatty acid profiles (US Patent 5668299/1997) |
| Method of stimulating an immune response by administration of host organisms that express intimin alone or as a fusion protein with one or more other antigens (US Patent 6261561/1997) |
| Oilseed Brassica bearing an endogenous oil wherein the levels of oleic, alpha-linolenic, and saturated fatty acids are simultaneously provided in an atypical highly beneficial distribution via genetic control (US Patent 5625130/1997) |
| Production of improved rapeseed exhibiting an enhanced oleic acid content (US Patent 5638637/1997) |
| Oil-body proteins as carriers of high-value peptides in plants (US Patent 5650554/1997) |
| Method for modifying canola seeds for use in ruminant feed (US Patent 5662958/1997) |
| Nucleotide sequence of soybean stearoyl-ACP desaturase gene (US Patent 5760206/1998) |
| Modification of vegetable oils using desaturase (US Patent 5777201/1998) |
| Vegetable oil extracted from rapeseeds having a genetically controlled unusually high oleic acid content (US Patent 5840946/1998) |
| Protection of plants against plant pathogens (US Patent 5850025/1998) |
| Canola oil having increased oleic acid and decreased linolenic acid content (US Patent 5850026/1998) |
| Canola variety producing a seed with reduced glucosinolates and linolenic acid yielding an oil with low sulfur, improved sensory characteristics and increased oxidative stability (US Patent 5750827/1998) |
| Increasing the HDL level and the HDL/LDL ratio in human serum by balancing saturated and polyunsaturated dietary fatty acids (US Patent 5843497/1998) |
| Brassica napus vegetable oil wherein the levels of oleic, alpha-linolenic, and saturated fatty acids are endogenously formed and simultaneously provided in an atypical highly beneficial distribution via genetic control (US Patent 5955623/1999) |
| Specific for palmitoyl, stearoyl and oleoyl-alp thioesters nucleic acid fragments encoding acyl-acp thiosesterase enzymes and the use of these fragments in altering plant oil composition (US Patent 5945585/1999) |
| Cysteine protease inhibitors (US Patent 6004933/1999) |
| Expression of immunogenic hepatitis B surface antigens in transgenic plants (US Patent 6551820/1999) |
| Oil from canola seed with altered fatty acid profiles and a method of producing oil (US Patent 5861187/1999) |
| Pourable canola oil for food applications (US Patent 5863589/1999) |
| Canola shortening for food applications (US Patent 5912041/1999) |
| Preparation of heterologous proteins on oil bodies (US Patent 5948682/1999) |
| Methods and compositions for synthesis of long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids (US Patent 5968809/1999) |
| Method for improving the solubility of vegetable proteins (US Patent 5989600/1999) |
| DNA sequences from brassicaceae encoding squalene epoxidase and process of raising squalene levels in plants therewith (US Patent 6153815/2000) |
| Artificial chromosomes, uses thereof and methods for preparing artificial chromosomes (US Patent 6077697/2000) |
| Brassica napus vegetable oil wherein the levels of oleic, alpha-linolenic, and saturated fatty acids are endogenously formed and are simultaneously provided in an atypical highly beneficial distribution via genetic control (US Patent 6011164/2000) |
| Nutritional supplements (US Patent 6117462/2000) |
| Products for topical applications comprising oil bodies (US Patent 6372234/2000) |
| Formation of brassica napus F1 hybrid seeds which exhibit a highly elevated oleic acid content and a reduced linolenic acid content in the endogenously formed oil of the seeds (US Patent 6323392/2001) |
| Nucleotide sequences of canola and soybean palmitoyl-ACP thioesterase genes and their use in the regulation of fatty acid content of the oils of soybean and canola plants (US Patent RE37317/2001) |
| Recombinant bacterial phytases and uses thereof (US Patent 6183740/2001) |
| Method for the production of modified plants (US Patent 6291741/2001) |
| Uses of oil bodies (US Patent 6210742/2001) |
| Oil body based personal care products (US Patent 6183762/2001) |
| Stable emulsions from gelled overbased substrates with surfactants and aqueous liquids (US Patent 6172122/2001) |
| Genes for microsomal delta-12 fatty acid desaturases and hydroxylases from plants (US Patent 6372965/2002) |
| Barley gene for Thioredoxin and NADP-thioredoxin reductase (US Patent 6380372/2002) |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae polynucleotides and sequences (US Patent 6420135/2002) |
| Plants and plant cells expressing histidine tagged intimin (US Patent 6406885/2002) |
| Enhanced transport with a plastid membrane transport protein (US Patent 6353153/2002) |
| Human desaturase gene and uses thereof (US Patent 6432684/2002) |
| Elongase gene and uses thereof (US Patent 6403349/2002) |
| Increasing the HDL level and the HDL/LDL ratio in human serum by balancing saturated and polyunsaturated dietary fatty acids (US Patent 6630192/2003) |
| 2,6-β-D-fructan hydrolase enzyme and processes for using the enzyme (US Patent 6524827/2003) |
| Nucleic acid and amino acid sequences relating to Enterococcus faecalis for diagnostics and therapeutics (US Patent 6617156/2003) |
| Plant retroviral polynucleotides and methods for use thereof (US Patent 6559359/2003) |
| Synthetic ligation reassembly in directed evolution (US Patent 6605449/2003) |
| Recombinant lactoferrin, methods of production from plants and uses (US Patent 6569831/2003) |
| Selected polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences of the methanogenic archaeon, methanococcus jannashii (US Patent 6503729/2003) |
| Plant extracts for the treatment of increased bone resorption (US Patent 6638540/2003) |
| Canola meal having reduced glucosinolates (US Patent 6562397/2003) |
| Artificial chromosomes, uses thereof and methods for preparing artificial chromosomes (US Patent 6743967/2004) |
| Phytase-containing foodstuffs and methods of making and using them (US Patent 6720014/2004) |
| Barley gene for thioredoxin and NADP-thioredoxin reductase (US Patent 6833493/2004) |
| Methods of monitoring enzyme activity (US Patent 6808874/2004) |
| Complete genome sequence of the methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii (US Patent 6797466/2004) |
| End selection in directed evolution (US Patent 6773900/2004) |
| Methods for regulating beta-oxidation in plants (US Patent 6914170/2005) |
| Recombinant bacterial phytases and uses thereof (US Patent 6855365/2005) |
| Pharmaceutical and cosmetic carrier or composition for topical application (US Patent 6911211/2005) |
| Antimicrobial polypeptides (US Patent 7148404/2006) |
| Methods and compositions to modulate expression in plants (US Patent 7151201/2006) |
| Method for reducing phytate in canola meal using genetic manipulation involving myo-inositol 1-phospathe synthase gene (US Patent 7148064/2006) |
| Promotion of somatic embryogenesis in plants by PGA37 gene expression (US Patent 7148402/2006) |
| Pectate lyases (US Patent 7144722/2006) |
| 3-(4,5-Dihydroisoxazole-5-yl)benzoylpyrazole (US Patent 7151075/2006) |
| Ecdysone receptors and methods for their use (US Patent 7151168/2006) |
| Antimicrobial polypeptides (US Patent 7148404/2006) |
| Mismatch repair detection (US Patent 7153652/2006) |
| Whole cell engineering by mutagenizing a substantial portion of a starting genome, combining mutations, and optionally repeating (US Patent 7033781/2006) |
| Expressing acid invertase or ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in floral tissue for enhanced floral sink strength and increased stability of seed in plants (US Patent 7193130/2007) |
| Plant promoters (US Patent 7199235/2007) |
| RPSk-1 gene family, nucleotide sequences and uses thereof (US Patent 7256323/2007) |
| CCT protein expression promoter (US Patent 7230091/2007) |
| Stress-related polynucleotides and polypeptides in plants (US Patent 7193129/2007) |
| Polypeptides having xyloglucanase activity and nucleic acids encoding same (US Patent 7172891/2007) |
| Regulatory sequences for regulation of gene expression in plants and other organisms, and compositions, products and methods related thereto (US Patent 7173120/2007) |
| Denaturant stable and/or protease resistant, chaperone-like oligomeric proteins, polynucleotides encoding same, their uses and methods of increasing a specific activity thereof (US Patent 7253341/2007) |
| Δ4-desaturase genes and uses thereof (US Patent 7220897/2007) |
| Yield-related polynucleotides and polypeptides in plants (US Patent 7238860/2007) |
| Promoter molecules for use in plants (US Patent 7294711/2007) |
| Modification of pollen coat protein composition (US Patent 7303917/2007) |
| Alteration of oil traits in plants (US Patent 7294759/2007) |
| Plant transformation method (US Patent 7285705/2007) |
| Cyanobacterial nucleic acid fragments encoding proteins useful for controlling plant traits via nuclear or plastome transformation (US Patent 7285701/2007) |
| Process for preparing vegetable oil fractions rich in non-tocolic, high-melting, unsaponifiable matter (US Patent 7288278/2007) |
| Amino acid transporters (US Patent 7288408/2007) |
| PM29 and LEA3 promoters and use in expression of transgenic genes in plants (US Patent 7291765/2007) |
| Doubled haploid production and genetic transformation (US Patent 7297838/2007) |
| Nucleic acids compositions conferring dwarfing phenotype (US Patent 7291767/2007) |
| Plant promoters for use in early seed development (US Patent 7294760/2007) |
| Genes encoding 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) enzymes for plant metabolic engineering (US Patent 7297541/2007) |
| Plant fatty acid synthases and use in improved methods for production of medium-chain fatty acids (US Patent 7301070/2007) |
| Method for the production of plant seed with modified fiber content and modified seed coat (US Patent 7301071/2007) |
| Cryptic regulatory elements obtained from plants (US Patent 7303873/2007) |
| Binary vectors for the improved transformation of plants systems (US Patent 7303909/2007) |
| Alteration of flowering time in plants (US Patent 7303918/2007) |
| Protein kinase stress-related polypeptides and methods of use in plants (US Patent 7303919/2007) |
| Modified leukotoxin gene and protein (US Patent 7304151/2007) |
| Expression of human serum albumin (HSA) in monocot seeds (US Patent 7304208/2007) |
| Canola event pv-bngt04(rt73) and compositions and methods for detection thereof (US Patent 7306909/2007) |
| Nuclear fertility restorer genes and methods of use in plants (US Patent 7314971/2008) |
| Method for plant breeding (US Patent 7314970/2008) |
| Nucleotide sequences encoding RAMOSA3 and sister of RAMOSA3 and methods of use for same (US Patent 7314758/2008) |
| Inbred maize line PH6KW (US Patent 7314987/2008) |
| Pea cultivar FP2282 (US Patent 7314985/2008) |
| Multibranching watermelon plant and method of producing (US Patent 7314979/2008) |
| Rubisco Activase with increased thermostability and methods of use thereof (US Patent 7314975/2008) |
| Production of oligosaccharides in transgenic plants (US Patent 7314973/2008) |
| Transgenic plants expressing biocidal proteins and method of producing the same (US Patent 7314972/2008) |
| Plant tubby-like proteins (US Patent 7314756/2008) |
| Note |
Naturalized plants (introduced in late 19th as oil seed weed). |
