ABSTRACT
The rising demand for vegetable oils to satisfy the food and industrial needs of a growing global population will place increasing pressure on the available supply of oil, which will in turn result in substantial increases in the price of seed oils. In the case of Canadian canola (Brassica napus L. and B. rapa L.), it has been estimated that an absolute increase of 1% of oil in the seed presently has an economic value of $60 million per annum for the Canadian oilseed crushing and processing industry (Canola Council of Canada). In addition to increasing acreage for production of oilseed crops and recruiting nonconventional crops as sources of industrial oil, there is considerable interest in developing molecular strategies for increasing seed oil content.
