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Download PDF Though sclerotinia doesn’t strike every year, when it does, it can be extremely damaging to oilseed rape crops. CPM reviews a new offering from Pioneer, which claims to be the first to offer resistance against the yield-robbing disease. When genetic resistance is really developed, there’s the potential for it to be game-changing for the industry. By Charlotte Cunningham Sclerotinia is far from a silent killer, with very visual symptoms like bleached stems and visible fungal growth often tell-tale signs that a crop of oilseed rape has succumbed to a bout of infection. The difficulty is that infection doesn’t occur every season, but when it does, losses can be devastating. As such, the majority of growers choose to adopt a preventative approach to spraying for the disease – which has implications from a resistance management point of view. While resistant varieties are often a go-to for cereal growers looking to mitigate their risk of disease, breeding resistance for sclerotinia in OSR is something that hasn’t been possible. Until now… Combining high yields with the claim to be the first ever winter OSR variety with a tolerance to the stem disease sclerotinia is Pioneer Protector Sclerotinia PT303 – the latest…
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