Table 1
Criteria available to growers in France to choose a sunflower variety. These criteria are presently included in the MyVar web tool (www.myvar.fr) developed by Terres Inovia (adapted from Casadebaig et al., 2016).
| Criteria | Entry | Levels | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| General information | Breeding company | – | – |
| Year of release | 3 | <2005, 2005–2010, >2010 | |
| EU country of registration | 2 | France, abroad | |
| Plant phenology | Anthesis earliness | 5 | Very early to late |
| Maturity earliness | 5 | Very early to late | |
| Plant morphology | Plant height | 3 | Short, medium, tall |
| Disease tolerance | Phomopsis stem canker | 5 | |
| Sclerotinia head rot | 4 | ||
| Sclerotinia basal stalk rot | 3 | ||
| Verticillium wilt | 4 | ||
| Downy mildew resistance | Resistance profile | 3 | RM9, RM8, other RMs |
| Herbicide tolerance | Technology used | 3 | None, Clearfield®, Express Sun® |
| Seed characteristics | Thousand kernel weight | 3 | Low, medium, high |
| Oil characteristics | Oil concentration | 4 | Low, medium, high, very high |
| Oil quality | 2 | High oleic, linoleic (mid-oleic) | |
| Yield performance | Performance level | 5 | Scale depending on multi-location field trial |
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