XBEET®
- A new generation priming technology for sugar beet seed
XBEET in Europe
Encouraged by the rapid success of XBEET in the USA, the solid
independent data set emerging, and the similar economic
pressures on the crop, modest trials were put in place in the UK
and Europe in 2007 to evaluate its performance under European
conditions.
Graph 1. UK Emergence 2007
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2007 UK trials
Emergence - average of two varieties and seven
locations |
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Trials under
Continental European conditions
Trials were also conducted in continental Europe through
collaboration with SESVANDERHAVE and returned similar field
emergence characteristics as in the UK.
Graph 2. French Trial emergence data – Average of two
varieties over four sites
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2007 France - Emergence
Average of four varieties and four sites |
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Table 2.
European Yield data - Average of trials conducted over thirteen
European sites in seven countries and one variety*
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Treatment |
T beet/ha % |
Sugar % |
Sugar/ha % |
White Sugar Yield % |
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Unprimed |
100.9 |
99.9 |
100.9 |
101.0 |
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Advantage |
103.0 |
99.9 |
102.5 |
102.4 |
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XBEET® |
104.1 |
100.1 |
104.3 |
104.5 |
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*Differences are largely numerical, XBEET showing
statistical significance at the P<0.05 level against the
unprimed control for root yield, and borderline
significance overall on White Sugar Yield at the same
level. |
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