“…These include SITL for erucic acid, seed colour, leaf pubescence, and resistance to white rust caused by the fungus Albugo candida (Teutonico and Osborn, 1994;Kole et al, 1996Kole et al, , 1997aKole et al, , 2002a. Several QTL controlling vernalization requirement, fl owering time, winter survival, freezing tolerance, degree of white rust resistance, and contents of palmitic, oleic and linolenic acid have been detected (Tanhuanpaa et al, 1995a(Tanhuanpaa et al, , b, 1996Osborn et al, 1997;Kole et al, 2001Kole et al, , 2002a. A major QTL controlling vernalization responsive fl owering time has already been Mendelized (Kole et al, 1997b(Kole et al, , 2001.…”