Method to optimize the storage of harvested sugar beets
AssigneeSESVanderHave NV
InventorsNicolas HENRY, Francois SUIVENG, Alain TOSSENS, Stefaan HOREMANS, Hendrik TSCHOEP
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Abstract
A method for predicting the storage ability of sugar beet roots quantifies the mechanical resistance of the root of the sugar beet. A method develops sugar beets with improved resistance, and sugar beets are obtained by this method.
Claims15
A method for predicting sugar beet resistance to factors causing root damages and/or to factors causing sucrose loss upon storage, comprising quantifying mechanical resistance of a root of a sugar beet.
A method for predicting sugar beet resistance to biological factors causing root damages during culture, comprising quantifying mechanical resistance of a root of sugar beets from a same genetic origin.
A method for improving resistance to damage upon storage of a sugar beet comprising the steps of:
- obtaining sugar beets from different genetic origins, stratifying said obtained sugar beets according to mechanical resistance of a root of said sugar beet from different origins, and selecting most resistant sugar beets.
A method for improving resistance of a sugar beet to biological factors causing root damage, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining sugar beets from different genetic origins, stratifying said obtained sugar beets according to mechanical resistance of a root of the sugar beet from different origins, and selecting most resistant sugar beets.
A method of using a penetrometer comprising sorting sugar beets according to resistance to sucrose loss upon storage.
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