African Journal of
Agricultural Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Agric. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1991-637X
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJAR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 6860

Full Length Research Paper

Empirical determination of the motion resistance of pneumatic bicycle wheels for on and off-road performance

F. B. Akande1*, D. Ahmad1, O. B. Jamarie1, S. Sulaiman1 and A. B. Fashina2      
1Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, DE. Malaysia. 2Department of Agricultural Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria.  
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 09 November 2010
  •  Published: 04 December 2010

Abstract

Brassica oleracea (CC) normally displays an erucic acid (22:1) content ranging from 28 to 63%. In the course of studies dealing with the inheritance of erucic acid content in the seed oil of Brassica species individual plants belonging to three accessions of B. oleracea conv. capitata - Kashirka 202, Ladozhskaya DS 8395 and Eisenkopf - were identified displaying low, intermediary and high erucic acid content. The fatty acid profiles of these cabage genotypes and their potential use in Brassica napus breeding is discussed.

 

Key words: Brassica oleracea, cabbage, low-erucic acid mutant, fatty acid composition, breeding.