b'2 0 2 020 MOST innovativeplant varietiesVARIETY: P8888CROP: CORNBREEDER: CORTEVA AGRISCIENCEP8888 is an early-maturity silage corn hybrid which exhibits all attributes that char-acterize the new m3TM commercial line-up: pure dent grain texture, high degradable starch, top silage yield performance, yield stability, wide area of adaptation, excellent agronomics, stay green and high fibre digestibility. These characteristics contrib-ute to increase dairy farmers value crea-tion through a more flexible harvest time, higher milk production and better product quality. The m3TM corn silage concept is the result of an innovative product devel-opment strategy created by the European team of Corteva Agriscience and aimed at providing dairy farmers with the best digestible energy yield per hectare.VARIETY: REDICROP: BROCCOLIBREEDER: BEJO ZADENThe broccoli variety Redi is a true sensa-tion. It is a revolutionary concept, based on the variety Burgundy, and aimed at the consumer vegetable market. The varietyVARIETY: SYNTHIA VARIETY: TERAPURcombines healthy nutrition with an excep- CROP: SPRING TURNIP RAPE CROP: CARROTtional flavour in an original way. This purpleBREEDER: BOREAL PLANT BREEDING BREEDER: VILMORIN-MIKADOsprouting broccoli, comprising tenderSpring turnip rape (Brassica rapa The variety Terapur is an innovative and ) has lower stalks topped with a small floret, whoseharvest rates than spring oilseed rape agroecological plant solution to combat the unique features bring colour and originality(B. napus nematode Heterodera carotae), but it is a very valuable oil crop in. Selected to any dish. It is a flavourful, healthy, andthe north of Europe with its shorter growingfrom more than 3,700 wild plants, this vari-eye-catching broccoli in a sustainable pack- time demand. The variety Synthia is theety is not a consumable carrot but a trap aging. Thanks to high levels of naturally pro- first synthetic spring turnip rape variety andcrop which acts like a biocontrol solution. duced glucosinolate compounds, Vitaminbenefits greatly from the heterosis effect. ItWhite in colour, resembling a type of wild C and antioxidant activity, this variety ishas a 10% better yield than any of the con- carrot, it has a very large root network, and an extremely healthy vegetable. Its colourventional turnip rape varieties. It can also bespreading waxy foliage. Endowed with provides more antioxidant compounds thandistinguished from those through its oilseedresistance to the nematode Heterodera green broccoli, which consolidates andrape type stiff and strong stem, that brings acarotae, the planting of this variety makes boosts its power as a functional food. Nextgreatly improved crop security for farming init possible to significantly reduce the to that, it is the first one-cut hybrid purplethe north of Europe. population of this pest in the soil. For carrot sprouting broccoli variety. The variety wasgrowers, this innovative plant solution is bred by Bejo, in cooperation with Elsoms.the first effective response to control this cyst nematode since the European Union banned dichloropropene in 2009.HONOURABLE MENTIONSWe had so many nominations come in, that it was hard to limit it down to 20. So, apart from the list above, there were several other innovative varieties that we did not want to let go by unnoticed, so we placed them under Honourable mentions and these are: spring crown vetch variety Korona from the Research Institute for Fodder Crops, sunflower variety NS H 7749 from the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, wheat variety Pexeso from Selgen, and foxtail millet variety Rucereus from the Crop Research Institute.24IEUROPEAN SEEDIEUROPEAN-SEED.COM'