Method for enhancing crop performance in Brassica
AssigneeBASF Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC
InventorsRobert MacDonald, Susan Slater, Derek Lewis, Joel Gorman
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for enhancing crop performance in Brassica, the method comprising providing Brassica seeds which have been sorted so that at least 90% of the seed population have a seed diameter of at least 1.7 mm; and seeding said Brassica seeds at a seeding rate sufficient to establish a population of Brassica plants so that the plants have a density of 40 to 95 plants per m2 when the plants are at any one or more of phenological growth stages 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15, according to the BBCH scale; and that the plants show an establishment rate of at least 40%.
Claims12
A method for enhancing crop performance in Brassica, said method comprising:
- a. providing Brassica seeds which have been sorted so that the seed population has a thousand seed weight of more than 4.0 g;
- b. seeding said Brassica seeds at a seeding rate between 2.6 and 8.0 kg/ha;
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- c. growing the plants at
- a density of 40 to 95 plants per m2 when the plants are at any one or more of phenological growth stages 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15, according to the BBCH scale, wherein the establishment rate of said seeds is at least 40%.
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