[ noun ] seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil <noun.plant>
People were told it was cut-rate olive oil, but it was actually rapeseed oil processed for industrial use, not human consumption.
The tribunal said the prosecution proved a link between the adulterated rapeseed oil and the deadly illness.
The High Plains and Pacific Northwest will see smaller increases in rapeseed production.
Plant geneticist Dick Auld of the University of Idaho, who pioneered much of the current research in rapeseed varieties for U.S. cultivation, said most of the increase is expected to occur in the Southeast.
Tomatoes, tobacco and rapeseed are among the dicots that have been successfully engineered genetically.
They will contract with farmers in the northwestern U.S. to grow the new varieties of the rapeseed plant and contract for the crushing or refining of the oil and market it.