High Oleic Acid (Christian Möllers)

The development of oilseed rape cultivars with a high content of oleic acid (18:1) and a low content of linolenic acid (18:3) in the seed oil is an important breeding aim. Oil of this quality is increasingly being sought by the food and the oleochemical industry. Current research work in this field is related to (a) Identification of new HO and LL mutant genotypes, (b) development of locus and allele specific PCR primers for marker assisted selection for HOLL seed quality, (c) Development of a high-throughput Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) method for the efficient non-destructive selection of individual HOLL quality type seeds in segregating F2 populations