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Canola

Nowadays, canola (Brassica napus L. ssp. oleifera Metzg.) is one of the most promising crops. Agricultural lands occupied by canola fields have been considerably increased over the last years. The primary reason of such popularity is possibility of using canola seeds as a source of biofuel (biodiesel). Canola is the crop with high and often unrevealed potential, wich can be realized by efficient plant growth regulators.

Influence of Albit on canola was studied in trials performed by Agricultural Institute of South-East, All-Russia Institute of Plant Protection (2006) and All-Russia Institute of Biological Plant Protection (2006, 2007).

According to data of these trials, canola, as well as buckwheat, is the most sensitive to Albit culture: average yield increase provided by Albit treatments is 5.2 centners/hectare ( 42.9% over control).

For treatment of canola, Albit is recommended to be used as an antidote in mixes with insecticides, herbicides and chemical fungicides. Albit relieves or completely abolishes stress action of these chemicals on canola, that provides saving of considerable part of yield. According to data of All-Russia Institute of Biological Plant Protection (2007), supplement of herbicide, insecticide and their combination with Albit provides yield saving of 16.8%, 19.5% and 28.3%, respectively.

In case of canola, the most efficient way of applying Albit is its joint use with insecticides. The insecticide activity remains intact, but antidote effect of Albit provides considerable yield increase (up to 93 % over control). It was established, that addition of Albit to insecticides provides 1.3-6.0 litres of extra canola oil per each millilitre of Albit. Each rouble invested to application of Albit brings 8.95-49.4 roubles of profit.

In field trials, Albit provided increase of:

• canola yield by 1.7-10.9 centners/hectare,
• oil content in canola seeds by 0.3-1.3%,
• oil output by 82.7-297 litres/hectare,
• increase of weight of 1000 seeds by 0.08-45.3 g,
• number of seeds per plant by 6.8-41.8,
• weight of seeds from one plant by 0.68-3.8 g,
• stem lenght by 2.5-4.3 cm.

Also, Albit decreases infestation of canola plants with Fusarium wilt (biological efficacy 48 %), Alternaria leaf spot (CE 21-79 %), white blight (CE 31-75 %) and damping-off (BE 50-67 %).

The most effective way of Albit application is foliar spraying (50-70 ml/hectare) in combination with insecticides or herbicides, which might be accompanied with presowing seed treatment (50 ml/tonne of seeds) in combination with chemical fungicides.