To meet the specific needs of the market, Caussade Semences pursues its research on disease resistance, yield regularity as well as oleic sunflowers.

Caussade Semences breeding criteria

Agronomical criteria :

• precocity,
• early vigor,
• fertilization quality,
• yield potential and regularity (grain and oil),
• tolerance to dryness.

Technical criteria :

• drying down,
• height,
• lodging resistance,
• capitulum strenght.

Disease resistances (phoma black stem, phomopsis stem canker, sclerotinia wilt and mildew).

Technological criteria :

• oil content,
• oil quality,
• fatty acid profile.