Resistance to disease and accumulation of sucrose: breeders of Belarus and Russia presented a new hybrid of beets

Belarusian and Russian breeders presented a new hybrid of sugar beet "RUE 363 CCC". It combines high productivity with resistance to infections, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture told sb.by.

It is noted that the hybrid was the result of cooperation of the Belarusian RUE "Experimental Scientific Station on Sugar Beets" and the Russian company "SoyuzSemSvekla".

Hybrid "RUP 363 CSS" rises and rapidly gaining weight, ahead of weeds, but at the same time maintaining immunity, — said in the Department. The plant has an innate resistance to leaf infections and powdery dew. Where conventional varieties require chemical treatments, this hybrid protects itself. And tolerance to risomania (a dangerous virus that destroys roots) means that even in diseased soil, beets will survive and continue to store sugar.

The press service added that the hybrid belongs to the normal-sugar type, this means that the plant does not waste energy on premature flowering, and methodically accumulates sucrose in the root vegetable, which by the average harvesting time reaches an ideal condition.

As emphasized in the Ministry, for the sugar plant, such root vegetables are the dream of any technologist. They are smooth, easy to wash off the ground, have no internal voids and perfectly rubbed, giving the maximum clean product.

- Belarusian scientists continue to solve applied problems, giving farmers confidence in a high yield, the Ministry of Agriculture concluded.

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