BLAZEN
High yielding conventional variety
- Marketed under the Oilseed Establishment Partnership (OEP)
- Good resistance to lodging with stiff straw
- Relatively late flowering with medium maturity
Characteristics
About
Blazen is a high yielding conventional variety recommended for the north but suitable for all the main OSR growing areas of the UK. It is a Picto cross and has good resistance to lodging. Blazen is also the first variety from KWS UK to be marketed under the KWS OEP scheme.
It has a very good multigene resistance to stem canker. Blazen is a short and stiff variety with good performance across the main OSR regions of England and has had excellent performance in KWS UK trials.
Characteristics in numbers
| Variety Type | Conventional |
| Recommendation | North |
| UK | |
| Gross Output | 103 |
| Gross Output East/West | 102 |
| Gross Output North | 106 |
| Shortness of stem | 6 |
| Resistance to Lodging | [8] |
| Stem Stiffness | 9 |
| Earliness of Flowering | 6 |
| Earliness of Maturity | 5 |
| Oil Content | 44.8 |
| Light Leaf Spot | 6 |
| Stem Canker | 7 |
