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A £2.5m, three-year project has been launched to bring the first precision-bred oilseed rape onto commercial farms in Europe. Light Leaf Spot Enhancing Resistance And reducing…
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New precision breeding project aims to rebuild OSR cropping
0A £2.5m, three-year project has been launched to bring the first precision-bred oilseed rape onto commercial farms in Europe. Light Leaf Spot Enhancing Resistance And reducing Susceptibility with EDiting (LLS-ERASED) is led by BOFIN farmers and is funded through the Farming Innovation Programme, delivered with Innovate UK. It aims to bring together farmers, breeders, crop scientists and agronomists to tackle light leaf spot using precision breeding and new disease management tools. Light leaf spot is the number one threat to UK crops, with yield losses estimated to have risen from £94m in 2017 to £300m in 2022. Control has become…