Making its return to Cereals recently, LS Plant Breeding, was following up on a successful first visit in 2022 – with its market leading oilseed rape varieties very much to the fore again.

“We had a high footfall of growers, agronomists and trade visitors to our stand and they were exactly our target audience,” commented Chris Guest, LSPB's managing director. “In particular, the great interest in our variety demonstration plots at the stand last year confirmed our decision to take part in Cereals again in 2023.”

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The company's comprehensive series of plots featured winter oilseed rape, spring and winter beans, spring combining peas, and spring wheat plots.

LSPB has a long heritage of winter oilseed rape breeding and top of the UK Recommended List, Turing – for both East/West and North regions – alongside Vegas, which was showcasing the ‘RlmS' phoma resistant gene with outstanding light leaf spot resistance, plus Murray at the top of the East/West region only, headed up the range of varieties on display.

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Chris Guest also pointed to a selection of candidate varieties for the first time, including Zidane, a RL candidate winter OSR will be there as well as some promising coded varieties with exceptional packages of traits being evaluated for the future.

Equally well known to UK pulse growers for its spring bean portfolio and the varieties included top of the PGRO Descriptive List, Genius, market leading Lynx, and market expanding LVC (low vicine/convicine) varieties, Futura and Victus.