Much to my surprise, it seems as though there is a canola plant, different from the rapeseed plant.
--phillip
from http://www.mcgacanola.org/education_kids_plant.html
Canadian scientists developed the canola plant from another Brassica plant called rapeseed. In ancient civilizations, oil from the rapeseed plant was used in lamps and as cooking oil. Following World War 2, Canadian plant breeders started a program to genetically modify rapeseed. They wanted to develop a plant that produced healthier oil by preventing the plants from making and depositing unwanted substances in their seeds. This new plant was called canola.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola
In agriculture, Canola is a trademarked cultivar of genetically engineered rapeseed variants from which rapeseed oil is obtained. Also known as "LEAR" oil (for Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed), Canola oil was initially bred in Canada by Keith Downey and Baldur Stefansson in the 1970s[citation needed]. The word "canola" is derived from "Canadian oil, low acid" in 1978.
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