Sachet-on-a-stick is an innovative system that releases beneficial insects onto greenhouse crops. Easy to use, it helps efficiently apply biological control methods from the earliest cultivation days and weeks onwards, i.e. when plants are small and vulnerable. The major benefit is the ability to protect each plant individually: as leaves don’t touch each...
DNA Multiscan offers rapid and cost-effective semi-quantitative screening for most (fungal and bacterial) pathogens affecting specialised crops. Designed by the Eurofins Expertise Centre on Greenhouse Growing in Wageningen (NL), this test only requires one analysis to detect and determine the extent of the pathogen presence from a list of 50 fungi and 10 bacteria...
Amylo-X® WG is a fungicide based on a strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum D747 used for fungal and bacterial diseases in greenhouse and field vegetable crops, tree growing and winegrowing.
Amylo-X® WG has a triple action: competition for space on treated plants, direct fungicidal effect of lipopeptides and a natural immunity...
Over the course of the last decade, the chestnut market has changed radically, with a significant increase in the demand for nuts meeting requirements specific to processing, that are different from the criteria applicable to the fresh product market: peelability, post-processing taste, smaller size, lower buying price.
France’s current chestnut imports are...
Cordoba, a late autumn-early winter variety of Savoy cabbage, is the first of its kind to combine resistances to three major diseases, most harmful to this type of cabbage: clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae), white rust (Albugo candida) and ring spot (Mycosphaerella brassicae). Intended for the fresh product market, it combines all the following benefits:
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Sparkle RZ is a round-leaved variety of rocket. It is innovative both in shape, with smooth round leaves – similar to spinach- and taste, with an intense rocket flavour.
Excellent characteristics from the field to the plate:
• Original leaves, attractive in shape
• Subtle rocket flavour
• Thick leaves, with long shelf-life
• Very good vitality,...
ARMELLE is the first strawberry variety selected on and for Réunion Island. It is a Ciref/Armeflhor co-variety created as part of a collaboration with the body in charge of designing new varieties within the French Strawberry Growers’ Association and the Fruit, Vegetable and Horticulture Technical Experimentation Centre on Réunion Island. Produced by Ciref...
Le Costelet® is a Charentais-type melon produced after a demanding selection process to find the right varieties and aimed at rediscovering flavours of the past.
This produce is an exquisite heritage-type melon. It really is one-of a-kind with an unusually smooth and ribbed look and a beautifully golden colour with gilded shades.
Le Costelet®’s...
Since 2000, INRA has been conducting a varietal innovation programme called ResDur. The purpose is to produce quality varieties with long-term resistance to the main grapevine fungal diseases. The programme came to fruition in January 2018, when four varieties were added to the official catalogue. The wine produced using varieties, which are naturally resistant...
