New KWS sugar beet varieties behaves well in the three-year official testing

Date:12-21-2018

The three-year official variety results from the Institute for Sugar Beet Research (IfZ) from Göttingen certify KWS sugar beet varieties once again very well. With this, the Einbecker seed specialist underlines its pioneering role in the development and provision of high-performance sugar beet varieties.

"We are meeting the challenges of the future in sugar beet cultivation with an innovative plant genetics: Our goal is to provide farmers with high-performance, site-adapted varieties that optimally exploit the yield potential of the area with their different resistance properties", emphasizes Dr. med. Alexander Coenen, regional manager for Germany and Austria at KWS.

Approved sugarbeet varieties are tested and evaluated by the IfZ in an extensive testing system with and without fungicide measures. In further experiments the performance under infestation conditions is e.g. tested with nematodes or Rhizoctonia.

After three years of official testing, the latest generation of cultivars confirms their performance and thus their breeding progress: As a nematode-tolerant variety on areas with and without nematodes, LUNELLA KWS has the highest adjusted sugar yield of the entire variety portfolio. Thus, LUNELLA KWS makes a very high contribution to making the best possible use of the earnings potential. THADDEA KWS is a yield-tolerant nematode tolerant strain and, with its multiple Rizomania tolerance RZ 2.0, is also very well suited for surfaces with increased Rizomania pressure. As an energy beet and as a feed bed in cattle feed, the variety FELICIANA KWS is recommended on areas with nematodes.

For areas without particular disease and pest pressure ADVENA KWS and CELESTA KWS are the new top varieties. While ADVENA KWS convinces with a very high adjusted sugar yield, CELESTA KWS has the highest sugar content among the new varieties. As an energy boulder and as a feed bed, CHARLEENA KWS convinces in this segment with its high dry matter content and good foliar health.

"If the farmer knows which diseases and pests are found on his land, he can use these variety results to specifically decide on the site-adapted variety and make use of the breeding progress", explains Dr. med. Alexander Coenen.

Editor's note: This article was originally published in German. This English summary has been prepared with Google Translate and edited for clarity.