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Traits are increasingly becoming the route through which breeders deliver genetic solutions to agronomic challenges in oilseed rape. CPM explores N-Flex, a new trait from Limagrain designed to help optimise nitrogen inputs. The trait is becoming the standard ideotype for assessing an OSR variety. By Tom Allen-Stevens It’s perhaps one of the most frustrating aspects of growing oilseed rape. You’ve given the crop everything it could possibly need at the right time, yet still, when the combine goes through, it doesn’t live up to expectations. Why? Achieving yield potential and stability has long been a key objective for plant breeders. Now Limagrain has launched N-Flex, claimed to be a step forward in optimising N nutrition. N-Flex is a trait the breeder has introduced into its winter OSR varieties to minimise yield loss in sub-optimal N conditions. The first variety on the UK market is LG Ambassador, which was introduced onto the AHDB Recommended List this year for autumn 2020 plantings. “One of the most difficult things to achieve in OSR is optimal N,” explains LG European portfolio manager for OSR Dr Vasilis Gegas. “This is the N supply the crop needs to reach its optimal performance. Feed it too…
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