About bolting

Bolting is the natural reaction of a sugarbeet plant once it gets the signal to develop to the vegetative phase, which normally follows in the second crop year. Bolting can be caused by cold temperatures (between 3 and 8°C) affecting the young sugarbeet over a longer time period. But also other stress factors can induce the bolting impulse to the small sugarbeet.

Therefore, we recommend to check already before sowing the suitablity of the chosen variety for your planting time and prepare the sowing in the best conditions to give as less stress as possible to the young seedling of a plant.

Bolters and CONVISO® SMART

CONVISO® SMART is maybe the "Once-in-a-lifetime" solution to clean the fields from weed beets from conventional sugarbeets, as the herbicide CONVISO® ONE has a strong effect on classical weed beets.

In first effect, that will limit the pressure of bolter removal on CONVISO® SMART fields. But even with a optimal crop management it's not possilbe to avoid that some CONVISO® SMART sugarbeets start bolting as bolting is a natural reaction of the sugar beet plant.

It is highly necessary to remove all CONVISO® SMART bolters from the fields, as the bolters can't be controlled neither with CONVISO® ONE nor a classical sugarbeet herbicide.

Every bolter needs to be conscientiously removed from CONVISO® SMART fields.

SMART weed beets in following crops

CONVISO® SMART sugarbeet varieties are tolerant to the ALS-inhibitor herbicide CONVISO® ONE with the two active ingredients Foramsulfuron and Thiencarbazone-methyl. However, they also show some improved tolerances to other herbicides out of the ALS-herbiicde familiy compared to classic sugarbeets. Therefore CONVISO(R) SMART weedbeets can't be securly controlled with ALS-herbicides in other crops. It is important to consider this fact when planning the crop rotation. Based on trials, the use of herbicides of the family of synthethic auxins offers a broad control of weed beets in combination with a strong competitive crop on the field.

Find more information about our CONVISO® SMART stewardship measures here.

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We want to encourage you to be #simplydifferent! Do things differently and try something new. Our sugar beet varieties are healthy with excellent performance. The CONVISO® SMART system is now available in the BTS variety range.

CONVISO® SMART is an innovative and highly effective technology for weed control in sustainable sugar beet cultivation. The technology consists of a BTS SMART variety in combination with an herbicide. The new variety BTS SMART 9485 has a tolerance to the herbicide CONVISO® ONE to effectively remove weeds. This tolerance was developed using traditional breeding techniques, based on a naturally occurring tolerance.

For more information on the Conviso Smart system, click here or contact us through your local advisor. We are here for you!Your Betaseed Team