Crambe

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Crambe

a genus of annual or perennial plants of the family Cruciferae. They are generally densely branched herbs with large succulent leaves. The flowers are usually white. The fruit is two-sectioned, with an infertile lower section and a fertile monospermous upper section. There are between 20 and 25 species in Eurasia and Africa. In the USSR there are between 18 and 20 species, distributed on steppes, semideserts, and arid mountain slopes and sometimes along seacoasts (Baltic Region, southern European USSR, the Caucasus, Middle Asia, and the southern part of Western Siberia). The best-known species is sea kale (C. marétima). The stalks of its vernal leaves are used as a vegetable, which is smilar to asparagus. Sometimes sea kale is cultivated. The young shoots of C. tatarica and the raw leaves of C. oriental is are also used for food. The species C. Kotschyana is a valuable fodder, nectar-bearing, and starch-yielding plant; it is suitable for cultivation. The seeds of C. abyssinica, which grows in the Abyssinian Highlands, contain up to 53 percent nutrient oil.

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Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of glyphosate desiccant at different plant desiccation times at pre-harvest on the physiological quality of crambe seeds.

Physiological quality of seeds of crambe desiccated at pre-harvest with glyphosate/Qualidade fisiologica de sementes de crambe dessecado em pre-colheita com glyphosate

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Moisture content on the mechanical behavior of crambe grains/ Influencia do teor de agua no comportamento mecanico dos graos de crambe

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(1993) analyzed finishing steers and did not find any difference in performance from animals fed on soy bran which totally replaced crambe bran.

Crambe meal in supplements for culling cows: animal performance and carcass characteristics/Torta de crambe em suplementos para vacas de descarte: desempenho animal e caracteristica de carcaca

A variabilidade do tamanho de amostra entre os caracteres ja foi descrita para as culturas de crambe (Cargnelutti Filho et al., 2010a) e de pessego e maca (Toebe et al., 2011) e entre a duracao dos periodos larval, pupal e larval + pupal de Microtheca ochroloma e de Microtheca semilaevis em nabo forrageiro (Cargnelutti Filho et al., 2012).

Sample size for estimating the average and median character of white lupine (Lupinus albus L.)/Dimensionamento amostral para a estimacao da media e da mediana de caracteres de tremoco branco (Lupinus albus L.)

Neste sentido, alguns estudos em caracteres morfologicos e produtivos da cultura de crambe (CARGNELUTTI FILHO et al., 2010b) mostram que, nesse nivel de confianca (SA = 2%), e necessario avaliar de 379 a 3.811 plantas.

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Applicability of Crambe abyssinica Hochst. byproduct as biosorbent in the removal of chromium from water

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