Beat bolting with new beets

摘要

New sugar beet varieties with a much lower risk of bolting even when sown early have been added to the BBRO Recommended List for 2012. Of the six new varieties added, four have a lower early sowing bolting score than any previously recommended variety. All four varieties - SES Vander-have's Cayman, Badger and Lippiz-zan, and Columbus from Strube's breeding programme - will be marketed in the UK by Elsom Seeds. Resistance to bolting was likely to be a critical characteristic for growers in the future, manager of the firm's sugar beet and oilseed portfolio Ian Munnery said at a RL launch briefing.