Agricultural and Biological Sciences
8 years ago

New research reveals key to stronger rapeseed plants against lodging!

He'nan nongye kexue
Exploration of Dynamics Analysis and Comprehensive Evaluation on Lodging Resistance in Stem of Rapeseed (B.napus L)
Baoming Tian, Zhihua Yuan, Jianping Wang

Paper Summary

Researchers developed a model to study how well rapeseed plants can resist bending or "lodging". By analyzing different factors, they found a way to measure lodging resistance. The lower the value of this measurement, the stronger the plant is against bending.

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