The SWO Rape Breeding Programme &Introduction toTrinityPieter de GrootLantmännen SW Seed

SWO Structure

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Joint Venture created in 2009:

SW WINTER OILSEED AB

Why SWO ?

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Activities 1. Breeding competitive

WOSR varieties for the

wider European market

2. 3rd Party variety

representation

3. Synergy development in

seed production

4. Sales and Licensing

under existing brands:

Objectives1. Create an efficient,

sustainable & competitive

OSR breeding programme

Strategy1. Combine the breeding

programmes of the 3

partners to produce a

single European wide

programme

Florimond-Desprez Leading French breeder Family owned 770 employees T.O.2010 > € 160 million

50% France40% Rest of Europe10% rest of world

Breeding programmes• Wheat & Triticale• Durum Wheat• Barley• Sugar & fodder beet, • Peas, Chicory, & Lucerne

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Lantmännen SW Seed Owned by 35,000 Swedish

farmers, Operate in 22 countries Over 10 000 employees 2012 T.O. = €4.5 billion One of the Nordic area’s largest

Groups • Food 38%, Energy 10%,

Machinery 24%, Agriculture 28% Breeding programmes

• All cereals, Oilseed rape, Forage Crops, Potatoes, Salix

• Canola alliance with Viterra• Research collaborations with

Keygene

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Elsoms Seeds Leading independent UK

plant breeder Family owned 75 employees T.O.2010 €24 million Breeding programmes

• Wheat• Oilseeds• Vegetables

UK Market Sales & Marketing specialist

Strong partnerships with major breeders

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SWO Sales Areas

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Lantmännen SW Seed

Florimond-Desprez

Elsoms Seeds

SWO Breeding Network

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Lectoure

SpaldingHadmersleben

Svalöv

Levroux

Houville

SWO Station

Partner Trial

Special Site

SWO Trial

Harzhof

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SWO OSR Official Trials Candidates 2013

Breeding Projects Phoma

Developing varieties with

multigene resistance

combinations • RLM 4 - 6 - 7 – 10 & LepR 1 – 4

Light Leaf Spot

Increasingly important disease

Not just the “Scottish disease!”

A real problem in 2013……

SWO using Scottish sites for

rigorous testing.

Club Root

Increasing Europe wide problem

Resistance to P1/P3 is breaking

down

SWO strategy based on broad

genetic resistance

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Breeding Projects Verticillium Wilt

• Thank you Dr Gladders !• A significant and growing

problem across Northern Europe.

• Data from GFP (European breeders) project at Gottingen University.

• Oase = resistant control• Laser and Falcon =

susceptible controls• Trinity has good resistance –

• Galileo parent has very good resistance

• Trinity performed excellently in the Gottingen trials.

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Trinity One of the first SWO varieties

Open Pollinated Variety

Parentage

• Galileo x Adriana

• Zeus is one of the “relatives”

contributes towards the Verticillium

Wilt resistance.

Seed production

• UK

• Germany

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Initially selected for the UK

market

Also in trials in

• Denmark

• Poland

• Czech Republic

• Slovak Republic

• Estonia

• Lithuania