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Research

Flax project-Bibliography

 
 Allman, M. (1995) ‘Plant sourses of n-3 Fatty Acids’, Food Australia, 47(3), 514-517.
Anon (2004) ‘Effect of Soil and weather conditions and some agricultiral practices on yield and yield components in Linseed’, Scientia Agriculturae Biochemica, 2(35), 52-56.
Christie, W.W. (1982) [...]

The nutritional power of apples

ISSA has received a grant from the Department of Agriculture to study the nutritional and medicinal properties of native apple varieties.  Cormac Griffith (orchard manager) and his colleagues are busy testing 20 varieties with a refractometer, an instrument [...]

Pictures of the Cauliflower

Up to date pictures of some brassicas.

Close-up of the Winter Roscoff cauliflower. 
 

Beginning to open. 

Rows of cauliflowers just turning to flower.

Native Brassicas

Native Brassicas
Synopsis of Proposal: Two main aims identified:
1.To genetically and morphologically characterise in exsisting accessions.
2. To grow out and generate seed from accessions within the collection to maintain viability.
Part 2: Comments on the Proposal
(a) Relevance to the measure.
This [...]

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