Canola growers can look forward to some new, short-season hybrid options in the 2025 line up.
New from BASF for 2025 are InVigor L330PC and L333PC which feature strong standability, patented pod shatter resistance, first-generation clubroot resistance, and an R rating for blackleg.
Growers can look for InVigor L341PC, also in the short-season 300 series but featuring second-generation clubroot resistance, making it of particular interest to Alberta growers, says BASF.
Russell Trischuk, technical services manager with BASF, explains that first- and second-generation naming of clubroot resistance is specific to the Invigor hybrid lineup. Hybrids with first-generation resistance have what is also called Mendel resistance, referring to the oilseed variety the resistance trait was found in.
Second generation resistance either has an additional trait or potentially a different trait that confers resistance to all the predominant pathotypes tested against in Western Canada, says Trischuk.
“Our strategy at BASF is not to launch any second generation hybrids that have any holes [in the resistance package]. So if it doesn’t pass against all of our testing lineup, then it actually doesn’t make the mark as a second generation,” he says.
These earlier maturing hybrids help growers manage the harvest window, too, says Blaine Woycheshin, InVigor marketing manager for BASF. In some areas, longer season hybrids stay green just a little too long, whereas these new hybrids open up the opportunities to straight cut more acres with even shorter season zones and still deliver strong yield potential, he says.
