The efficient winter rape variety SL-525 (Stela) was created in the breeding station Slapy u Tábora, station of Sempra Praha by method of cross and following individual selection according to the qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The variety is applied for legal protection according to the law 132.
Description:
| Type of growth | medium (130 - 160 cm), well leafed with firm stem |
| Leaf | rich green colour, the edges of leaf are unregularly toothed |
| Flower | flower head - cluster, flower is open, colour of petals is lemon yellow |
| Pod | flatly cylindrical, medium long, medium size of the end |
| Seed | brown-black to black, medium size, weight of 1000 seeds - 4,7 grams |
Qualities:
- minimum contents of erucic acid (up to 0,3 %)
- distinctly low contents of glucosinulates - 20 umol/g without dry fat
- convenient composition of fat acids
- high yield of seeds, higher than foreign varieties of this type
- high resistance to the freezing
- uniformity of blooming and ripening
- good resistance to the lodging
- good resistance to the Alternaria brassicae, Phoma lingam, Plasmodiophora brassicae...
