It’s an invasive disease that grows like a cancer on canola roots, preventing the plant from taking up water and nutrients, cutting yields and potentially killing plants. Canada is the world’s largest grower of canola, an oilseed invented by Canadian scientists in the 1970s by breeding out undesirable traits from the rapeseed plant. The threat has sparked concerns that farmers won’t be able to grow the oilseed profitably if it continues to spread. Read more: ‘Shock’ estimates on Canada’s wheat, canola crops boost pricesArticle Continued BelowCanadian farmers prep for canola market opportunity as China-U. Planting canola every year or every other year on fields increases the risk that clubroot could take hold.

Source: thestar September 06, 2018 17:48 UTC